Vices Quotes

1188 Vices quotes by 758 unique authors

When from behind me, a young woman of 25 uttered the following, it was the dumbest thing I have ever heard in my life until… — Lewis Black
What is pity but the vice of kindness. — Emile M. Cioran
God's cause is committed to men; God commits Himself to men. Praying men are the vice-regents of God; they do His work and carry out… — Edward McKendree Bounds
The virtue of some people consists wholly in condemning the vices in others. — Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel
This vice brings in one hundred million francs in taxes every year. I will certainly forbid it at once - as soon as you can… — Napoleon III
As witnesses not of our intentions but of our conduct, we can be true or false, and the hypocrite's crime is that he bears false… — Hannah Arendt
Minor vices lead to major ones, but minor virtues stay put. — Mignon McLaughlin
Since an intelligence common to us all makes things known to us and formulates them in our minds, honorable actions are ascribed by us to… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
There are no infidels anywhere but on earth: there are none in heaven, and there are none in hell. Atheism is a strange thing. Even… — Charles Spurgeon
My daughter, I'm proud to say, is senior vice president of ABC Family network. She could hire and fire me. She has hired me, but… — Jessica Walter
It's important to remember how our friends have such a powerful influence on us and vice versa. This can be a great thing as long… — Demi Lovato
If the children are untaught, their ignorance and vices will in future life cost us much dearer in their consequences than it would have done… — Thomas Jefferson
A wife says to her husband (or vice versa), "Do you love me?""Of course," he replies. "I've been married to you for twenty years, haven't… — Leo Buscaglia
Whoever passes forty without his virtue overpowering his vice, let him get ready for hellfire. This advice contains enough for people of knowledge. — Al-Ghazali
If you are proud of your descent from virtuous ancestors, how empty their virtue will leave your hands if you yourself are not virtuous. How… — Ibn Hazm
The great vice of democracy is that for a generation we have been busy getting ourselves on to the list of beneficiaries and removing ourselves… — Robert Menzies
I used to suppose that certain evils could never befall a being in possession of a sound mind; that true virtue supplies us with energy… — Charles Brockden Brown
So virtue is a purposive disposition, lying in a mean that is relative to us and determined by a rational principle, and by that which… — Aristotle
We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke strops our vice. — Henry David Thoreau
We are more inclined to regret our virtues than our vices; but only the very honest will admit this. — Holbrook Jackson
Any of us can achieve virtue, if by virtue we merely mean the avoidance of the vices that do not attract us. — Robert Staughton Lynd
He's put on weight and I've lost it, and vice versa. — Ronnie Whelan
The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures. — Joseph Addison
Non-violence and cowardice are contradictory terms. Non-violence is the greatest virtue, cowardice the greatest vice. Non-violence springs from love, cowardice from hate. Non-violence always suffers,… — Mahatma Gandhi
The cheapness of wine seems to be a cause, not of drunkenness, but of sobriety. ...People are seldom guilty of excess in what is their… — Adam Smith

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