Vices Quotes

1188 Vices quotes by 758 unique authors

The dangers of apparent self-sufficiency explain why Our Lord regards the vices of the feckless and dissipated so much more leniently than the vices that… — C.S. Lewis
The monkish vows keep us far from that sink of vice that is the female body, but often they bring us close to other errors.… — Umberto Eco
The great virtues of the German people have created more evils than idleness ever did vices — Paul Valery
When it was reported to General Washington that the army was frequently indulging in swearing, he immediately sent out the following order: The general is… — George Washington
London, black as crows and noisy as ducks, prudish with all the vices in evidence, everlastingly drunk, in spite of ridiculous laws about drunkenness, immense,… — Paul Verlaine
Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice. — Samuel Johnson
Hillary Clinton is as qualified or more qualified than I am to be Vice President of the United States of America. Let's get that straight.… — Joe Biden
The war was a mirror; it reflected man's every virtue and every vice, and if you looked closely, like an artist at his drawings, it… — George Grosz
Jehovah was not a moral god. He had all the vices and he lacked all the virtues. He generally carried out all his threats, but… — Robert Green Ingersoll
I think my vice would be outdoing myself. — Kendrick Lamar
The little people will get even, which is one of a thousand reasons why they are not little people at all. If you're a jerk… — Tom Peters
The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice. So long as men are not trained to… — Bertrand Russell
I hear you reproach, "But delay was best, For their end was a crime." Oh, a crime will do As well, I reply, to serve… — Robert Browning
And Joe Biden, thank you for being the best Vice President I could ever hope for. — Barack Obama
...the music you make is shaped by what you play it on ... if you feel that you're not getting enough out of a song,… — Mark Knopfler
Vanity is a weakness. I know this. It's a shallow dependence on the exterior self, on how one looks instead of what one is. I… — Dennis Lehane
As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever… — Edward Gibbon
Art is vice. One does not wed it, one rapes it. — Edgar Degas
A picture is a thing which requires as much knavery, as much malice, and as much vice as the perpetration of a crime. Make it… — Edgar Degas
He was a foe without hate; a friend without treachery; a soldier without cruelty; a victor without oppression, and a victim without murmuring. He was… — Unknown Author
That low vice, curiosity! — Lord Byron
It has been ordained that there be summer and winter, abundance and dearth, virtue and vice, and all such opposites for the harmony of the… — Epictetus
Whether Barack Obama is simply incompetent as president or has some hidden agenda to undermine this country, at home and abroad, he has nearly everything… — Thomas Sowell
Our everyday, traditional ideas of reality are delusions which we spend substantial parts of our daily lives shoring up, even at the considerable risk of… — Paul Watzlawick
Atheism is a strange thing. Even the devils never fell into that vice. — Charles Spurgeon

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