Vice Quotes

1024 Vice quotes by 706 unique authors

I should attempt to treat human vice and folly geometrically... the passions of hatred, anger, envy, and so on, considered in themselves, follow from the… — Baruch Spinoza
Christianity gave Eros poison to drink; he did not die of it, certainly, but degenerated to Vice. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name. — William Makepeace Thackeray
One thing that struck me early is that you donâ€™t put into a photograph whatâ€™s going to come out. Or, vice versa, what comes out… — Diane Arbus
If we wish to draw philosophical conclusions about our own existence, our significance, and the significance of the universe itself, our conclusions should be based… — Lawrence M. Krauss
Oh, I don't know. I might grow on you." She furrowed her pretty eyebrows. "Like a cancer?" "Like a favorite vice. — Ilona Andrews
In the end, living is defined by dying. Book- ended by oblivion, we are caught in the vice of terror, squeezed to bursting by the… — Bernard Beckett
Some choices are forever....Just because people aren't in our lives anymore, doesn't mean they stop thinking about us and vice versa. — Wendy Mass
Since there are thousands of fairy tales, one may safely guess that there are probably equal numbers where the courage and determination of females rescue… — Bruno Bettelheim
It is ourselves we have to fear. Prejudice is the real robber, and vice the real murderer. — Victor Hugo
I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores. — Moliere
Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed. People talk sometimes of secret vices, there are no such… — Oscar Wilde
Part of the problem about authenticity is that virtues aren't the only things that are habit forming: the more someone behaves in a way that… — N. T. Wright
[...] Tess and I are a good match. She understands intimately where I came from. She can cheer me up on my darkest days. It's… — Marie Lu
Well, but you affirm that virtue is only elicited by temptation; - and you think that a woman cannot be too little exposed to temptation,… — Anne Bronte
She felt so old, so worn out, so far away from the best moments of her life that she even yearned for those that she… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Betrayed and wronged in everything, Iâ€™ll flee this bitter world where vice is king, And seek some spot unpeopled and apart Where Iâ€™ll be free… — Moliere
The way I see it, every life is a pile of good things and...bad things. The good things don't always soften the bad things, but… — Steven Moffat
Perhaps [James Herondale] loved vice for vice's own sake. — Cassandra Clare
In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature, but in men it is a vice. — Boethius

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