Vices Quotes

1188 Vices quotes by 758 unique authors

Constancy has nothing virtuous in itself, independently of the pleasure it confers, and partakes of the temporizing spirit of vice in proportion as it endures… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Never can true courage dwell with them, Who, playing tricks with conscience, dare not look At their own vices. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Vice is its own reward. — Quentin Crisp
The absence of vices adds so little to the sum of one's virtues. — Antonio Machado
To accuse another of having weak kidneys, lungs, or heart, is not a crime; on the contrary, saying he has a weak brain is a… — Primo Levi
Alas, human vices, however horrible one might imagine them to be, contain the proof (were it only in their infinite expansion) of man's longing for… — Charles Baudelaire
I know no man who feels deeper disgust than I do at the ambition, avarice, and profligacy of the priesthood, as well because every one… — Francesco Guicciardini
Were there no desire there would be no virtue, and because one man desires what another does not, who shall say whether the child of… — Edgar Rice Burroughs
Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice. — Horace Walpole
When poverty is more disgraceful than even vice, is not morality cut to the quick? — Mary Wollstonecraft
To all the rest of his Absurdities, (for vice is always unreasonable,) he adds one more, who expects that Vertue from another which he won't… — Mary Astell
People resent articulacy, as if articulacy were a form of vice. — Frederic Raphael
So, in the infinitely nobler battle in which you are engaged against error and wrong, if ever repulsed or stricken down, may you always be… — Horace Mann
You can learn as much about the history from reading about the present as you can vice versa, that is learning about the present through… — Ken Burns
Vice, like virtue, Grows in small steps, and no true innocence Can ever fall at once to deepest guilt. — Jean Racine
Poverty is no vice, but an inconvenience. — John Florio
Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. — Angela Carter
Yet I have a clever touch and pander to your vices. While looking on in exultation. And so I play my game, with the exuberance… — Paul Meyer
You know, my role as Vice Chairman is a lot less tiring than playing matches every three days. — Michel Patini
I believe a great performer is someone who sounds just as great live as they do in the studio and vice versa. They should know… — Haley Reinhart
The more you work, the more people see your work and would like to work with you, and vice versa. — Stephen Root
People think because 'Vice' is irreverent and because we're crazy, we're stunt journalists. You know what? I don't actually care. — Shane Smith
I quit smoking the day I found out I was pregnant, which was nine years ago. But I'll still smoke in a movie. I have… — Jean Smart
In Washington, I found myself as a 31-year-old in a room with the president, vice president, and secretaries of state and defense, and I was… — Joe Scarborough
Good-faith re-examination of a position you've held in the past should be seen as a virtue, not a vice. — Mark Udall

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