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Vices Quotes by Ambrose Bierce
- What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence…
- IDLENESS, n. A model farm where the devil experiments with seeds of new sins and promotes the growth of staple vices.
- HERMIT, n. A person whose vices and follies are not sociable.
- SAUCE, n. The one infallible sign of civilization and enlightenment. A people with no sauces has one thousand vices; a people with one sauce has…
- SATIRE, n. An obsolete kind of literary composition in which the vices and follies of the author's enemies were expounded with imperfect tenderness.
- DIGESTION, n. The conversion of victuals into virtues. When the process is imperfect, vices are evolved instead - a circumstance from which that wicked writer,…
- MUGWUMP, n. In politics one afflicted with self-respect and addicted to the vice of independence. A term of contempt.
- Age - That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to…
- SATIRE, n. An obsolete kind of literary composition in which the vices and follies of the author's enemies were expounded with imperfect tenderness. In this…
- Age: that period of life in which we compound for the vices that we still cherish by reviling those that we no longer have the…
More Vices Quotes
- All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. — Aristotle
- Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up. — Mary Astell
- We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot. — Saint Augustine
- It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations. — Walter Bagehot
- Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice. — Abu Bakr
- Where the state begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa. — Mikhail Bakunin
- When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa. — Honore de Balzac
- Here's a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once. — Tallulah Bankhead
- Fast cars are my only vice. — Michael Bay
- Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself. — Henry Ward Beecher
- It is all about marketing; that is where the real craft comes in. The best actors do not necessarily become the biggest… — Dirk Benedict
- Karma brings us ever back to rebirth, binds us to the wheel of births and deaths. Good Karma drags us back as… — Annie Besant