Vices Quotes

1188 Vices quotes by 758 unique authors

One big vice in a man is apt to keep out a great many smaller ones. — Bret Harte
Innocence alone dares commit certain acts of audacity. Virtue, when tutored, is as calculating as vice. — Honore de Balzac
Stories now, to suit a public taste, must be half epigram, half pleasant vice. — James Russell Lowell
Who has a book of all that monarchs do, He's more secure to keep it shut than shown; For vice repeated is like the wand'ring… — William Shakespeare
In the twentieth century our highest praise is to call the Bible 'The World's Best Seller.' And it has come to be more and more… — Daniel J. Boorstin
Saint Augustine! well hast thou said, That of our vices we can frame A ladder, if we will but tread Beneath our feet each deed… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit -- or a mask. . . . The foregoing maxim shows the difference between truth and sarcasm. — William Hazlitt
Pleasure itself is not a vice — Samuel Johnson
Be a pattern to others, and then all will go well; for as a whole city is affected by the licentious passions and vices of… — Thomas Carlyle
The stifled hum of midnight, when traffic has lain down to rest, and the chariot wheels of Vanity, still rolling here and there through distant… — Thomas Carlyle
Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended. — John Dryden
The end of satire is the amendment of vices by correction; and he who writes honestly is no more an enemy to the offender than… — John Dryden
I don't drink anymore... I freeze it and eat it like a popsicle. — Dean Martin
Vice deceives us when dressed in the garb of virtue. — Juvenal
Gossip is vice enjoyed vicariously — Elbert Hubbard
Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment. — Ben Jonson
Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast; But shall the dignity of vice be lost? — Alexander Pope
The heart resolves this matter in a trice, "Men only feel the smart, but not the vice. — Alexander Pope
Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have. — Alexander Pope
Calumny is a vice of curious constitution; trying to kill it keeps it alive; leave it to itself and it will die a natural death. — Thomas Paine
Party spirit enlists a man's virtues in the cause of his vices. — Richard Whately
The well of nature is full today. Time to go outside and take a drink. — Diane Ackerman
Some vices only lay hold of us by means of others, and these, like branches, fall on removal of the trunk. — Blaise Pascal
A vice is a failure of desire — Gerald Stanley Lee
The problem with this world is, everyone in it is 3 drinks behind. — Humphrey Bogart

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