Vices Quotes

1188 Vices quotes by 758 unique authors

If you have ever been accused of being rude when you were merely stating the truth, or called a gossip because you like to dwell… — Mark Kingwell
Whoever will cultivate their own mind will find full employment. Every virtue does not only require great care in the planting, but as much daily… — Mary Wortley Montagu
Heaven preserve me from littleness and pleasantness and smoothness. Give me great glaring vices, and great glaring virtues, but preserve me from the neat little… — Violet Trefusis
Avoid fried meats which angry up the blood. If your stomach disputes you, lie down and pacify it with cool thoughts. Keep the juices flowing… — Satchel Paige
Beware of greed and remain pure and just. Restrain yourself from every vice. He who cannot restrain himself, how will he be able to teach… — Polycarp
Love and ego cannot go together. Knowledge and ego go together perfectly well, but love and ego cannot go together, not at all. They cannot… — Rajneesh
I do not love a man, except I hate his vices, because those vices are the enemies, and the destruction of that friend whom I… — John Donne
So behave that the odor of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere, that when we behold or scent a flower, we… — Henry David Thoreau
There are those who would misteach us that to stick in a rut is consistency - and a virtue, and that to climb out of… — Mark Twain
As Vice President one of the things I spend time on is the continuity of government; that's the main reason I'm here is a back… — Dick Cheney
An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer… — Walter Bagehot
We are slaves of what we don't know;of what we know we are masters.Whatever vice or weakness in ourselves we discoverand understand its cause and… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
I think women can be as cruel as men, and men as tender as women, and vice versa. — Aaron Eckhart
No one can shed light on vices he does not have or afflictions he has ever experienced. — Antonio Machado
Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice. — Rutherford B. Hayes
Two persons have been elected to the offices of President and Vice-President exclusively by the people of ONE SECTION of the country...A clearer case of… — Unknown Author
. . . money . . . is really the difference between men and animals, most of the things men feel, animals feel, and vice… — Gertrude Stein
My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues. — Abraham Lincoln
Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue. — Quintilian
Virtue by calculation is the virtue of vice. — Joseph Joubert
I have always thought it would be easier to redeem a man steeped in vice and crime than a greedy, narrow-minded, pitiless merchant. — Albert Camus
Do not spill thy soul in running hither and yon, grieving over the mistakes and the vices of others. The one person whom it is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure — Patrick Henry
Take a portion of wit, And fashion it fit, Like a needle, with point and with eye: A point that can wound, An eye to… — Jacques Barzun
Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher — Seneca the Younger

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