Vices Quotes

1188 Vices quotes by 758 unique authors

The examples of vice at home corrupt us more quickly and easily than others, since they steal into our minds under the highest authority. — Juvenal
Ladies, [motherhood] is a full-time job. Do not kid yourself that you can be a dental receptionist and a mother; that you can be a… — Alistair Begg
Vices are simply the errors which a man makes in his search after his own happiness. Unlike crimes, they imply no malice toward others, and… — Lysander Spooner
They will endure. They are better than we are. Stronger than we are. Their vices are vices aped from white men or that white men… — William Faulkner
Black is beautiful when it is a slum kid studying to enter college, when it is a man learning new skills for a new job,… — Whitney M. Young
What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more leisure and less… — Samuel Gompers
In golf, you keep your head down and follow through. In the vice presidency, you keep your head up and follow through. It's a big… — Dan Quayle
Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much. — Peter Ustinov
Nor was civil society founded merely to preserve the lives of its members; but that they might live well: for otherwise a state might be… — Aristotle
Are you still to learn that the end and perfection of our victories is to avoid the vices and infirmities of those whom we subdue? — Alexander the Great
An army is a nation within a nation, it is one of the vices of courage. — Alfred de Vigny
Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can pursue; it needs an unceasing vigilance and a rare detachment of spirit. It… — W. Somerset Maugham
You can change your faith without changing gods, and vice versa. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself — Samuel Johnson
Pride is a vice not only dreadfully mischievous in human society, but perhaps of all others, the most insuperable bar to real inward improvement. — Elizabeth Carter
I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other… — Abraham Lincoln
As has been well documented, I smoked pot as a kid, and I view it as a bad habit and a vice, not very different… — Barack Obama
Vice President Spiro Agnew can not cheat on his score : because all you have to do is look back down the fairway and count… — Bob Hope
I have never, in all my various travels, seen but two sorts of people I mean men and women, who always have been, and ever… — Mary Wortley Montagu
Good taste is the worst vice ever invented. — Edith Sitwell
Well, whiles I am a beggar, I will rail, And say there is no sin but to be rich; And being rich, my virtue then… — William Shakespeare
Men imagine that they communicate their virtue or vice only by overt actions, and do not see that virtue or vice emit a breath every… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
When quarrels and complaints arise, it is when people who are equal have not got equal shares, or vice-versa. — Aristotle
If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong. I do not say "give them up," for they may be all you… — Robert Louis Stevenson
The worst vice of the fanatic is his sincerity. — Oscar Wilde

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