Vices Quotes

1188 Vices quotes by 758 unique authors

Discard the protective rags of that vice which you called a virtue: humility. Learn to value yourself, which means: to FIGHT for your happiness, and… — John Galt
Every man with his own peculiar vice. His will hardly rock heaven or hell. — Colum McCann
I like to eat chocolate and pizza - that's my vice! - just like everyone else, but if I do it I have to keep… — Cara Castronuova
Ensor sees with his imagination, but his vision is perfectly accurate, of an almost geometric precision. He is one of the very few who can… — Jean Lorrain
The fighter (like the writer) must stand alone. If he loses he cannot call an executive conference and throw off on a vice president or… — A J Liebling
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy. — Seneca the Younger
Idleness is the grand Pacific Ocean of life, and in that stagnant abyss the most salutary things produce no good, the most noxious no evil.… — Charles Caleb Colton
The martyrs to vice far exceed the martyrs to virtue, both in endurance and in number. — Charles Caleb Colton
The weak-minded man is the slave of his vices and the dupe of his virtues. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Character is the sum of one's good habits (virtues) and bad habits (vices). These habits mark us and affect the ways in which we respond… — Thomas Lickona
National progress is the sum of individual industry, energy, and uprightness, as national decay is of individual idleness, selfishness, and vice. — Samuel Smiles
Cheetah genes cooperate with cheetah genes but not with camel genes, and vice versa. This is not because cheetah genes, even in the most poetic… — Richard Dawkins
The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice. If you take your children for a picnic… — Bertrand Russell
Let parents who hate their offspring rear them to hate labor, and to inherit riches; and before long they will be stung by every vice,… — Henry Ward Beecher
There is no evil that does not promise inducements. Avarice promises money; luxury, a varied assortment of pleasures; ambition, a purple robe and applause. Vices… — Seneca the Younger
A thirst for gold, The beggar's vice, which can but overwhelm The meanest hearts. — Lord Byron
Gossip is vice enjoyed vicariously - the sweet, subtle satisfaction without the risk. — Kin Hubbard
As a neighboring funeral terrifies sick misers, and fear obliges them to have some regard for themselves; so, the disgrace of others will often deter… — Horace
Truly color is vice! Of course, it can be, and has the right to be one of the finest virtues. Controlled by the strong hand… — James Whistler
The confidant of my vices is my master, though he were my valet. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To make judgements about great and lofty things, a soul of the same stature is needed; otherwise we ascribe to them that vice which is… — Michel de Montaigne
That roguish and cheerful vice, politeness. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The life even of a just man is a round of petty frauds; that of a knave a series of greater. We degrade life by… — Christian Nestell Bovee
The more prohibitions you have, the less virtuous people will be. Try to make people moral, and you lay the groundwork for vice. — Laozi
Persecution for opinion is the master vice of society. — Frances Wright

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