Vices Quotes

1188 Vices quotes by 758 unique authors

The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds. — Samuel Butler
Mission accomplished? The mission in Iraq, as laid out by President Bush and Vice President Cheney, has failed. — Robert Byrd
I started at Pillsbury as a manager in one of their analysis functions, then worked my way up the corporate ladder to become vice president.… — Herman Cain
In the late '70s, maybe just before I started, there was still an attitude that if you did film you didn't do TV and vice… — Robert Carlyle
Democracy means that anyone can grow up to be president, and anyone who doesn't grow up can be vice president. — Johnny Carson
Former vice president Al Gore has devoted his post-administration years to a mission to tell the world about global warming. It's funny, but in his… — Graydon Carter
The vice-president of an advertising agency is a bit of executive fungus that forms on a desk that has been exposed to conference. — Fred Allen
I got to be White House chief of staff, ten years of congressman, secretary of defense, vice-president. If you're a political junkie like I obviously… — Dick Cheney
President Bush gave me a tremendous opportunity to serve as the vice president. I enjoyed very much having the opportunity to be a part of… — Dick Cheney
Let them show me a cottage where there are not the same vices of which they accuse the courts. — Lord Chesterfield
Vice, in its true light, is so deformed, that it shocks us at first sight; and would hardly ever seduce us, if it did not… — Lord Chesterfield
A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
It will be undertaken, of course, in the June or July summit, and then to bring NATO closer to Russia or vice versa is a… — Warren Christopher
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries. — Winston Churchill
He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire. — Winston Churchill
Vice stirs up war, virtue fights. — Luc de Clapiers
One of the main reasons America should re-elect President Obama is that he is still committed to cooperation. He appointed Republican Secretaries of Defense, the… — William J. Clinton
I am the worst influence. If you can't handle your vices, then I am the Devil. — Tori Amos
I can see how the young girls really get hurt when their moms are critical, or vice versa when they're overly critical of their moms.… — Tori Amos
The whole truth is generally the ally of virtue; a half-truth is always the ally of some vice. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
More people are flattered into virtue than bullied out of vice. — Robert Smith Surtees
Never trust a man who has not a single redeeming vice. — Winston Churchill
The will to power, as the modern age from Hobbes to Nietzsche understood it, far from being a characteristic of the strong, is, like envy… — Hannah Arendt
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
The Lord sometimes allows people who are devoted to Him to fall into such dreadful vices; and this is in order to prevent them from… — Seraphim of Sarov

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