Vices Quotes

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When the imagination is continually led to the brink of vice by a system of terror and denunciations, people fling themselves over the precipice from… — William Hazlitt
Virtue steals, like a guilty thing, into the secret haunts of vice and infamy, clings to their devoted victim, and will not be driven quite… — William Hazlitt
If a [democratic] society displays less brilliance than an aristocracy, there will also be less wretchedness; pleasures will be less outrageous and wellbeing will be… — Alexis de Tocqueville
I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue. — Ben Jonson
Aristotle was the first accurate critic and truest judge nay, the greatest philosopher the world ever had; for he noted the vices of all knowledges,… — Ben Jonson
I would not be like those Authors, who forgive themselves some particular lines for the sake of a whole Poem, and vice versa a whole… — Alexander Pope
Books are necessary to correct the vices of the polite; but those vices are ever changing, and the antidote should be changed accordingly should still… — Oliver Goldsmith
So I just always drew. But never took that as a career path. I ended up in the computer business, and found myself as the… — Dan Povenmire
Cancer is not something confined to human beings. It's found in all multi cellular organisms where the adult cells proliferate, so it's widespread in the… — Paul Davies
It's fun for me to be with someone who loves reading as much as I do, because he'll give me things to read that I… — Zoe Kazan
Obama considers himself above deal-making and back-slapping, political necessities he often delegates to Vice President Joe Biden and other lesser sorts. — Ron Fournier
I have a dogmatic certainty: God is in every person's life. God is in everyone's life. Even if the life of a person has been… — Pope Francis
Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man. — Benjamin Franklin
Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices. — R. Buckminster Fuller
My biggest vice is playing solitaire on my iPad. It's bad. I mean, it's ridiculous. — Diane von Furstenberg
As a dad, you are the Vice President of the executive branch of parenting. It doesn't matter what your personality is like, you will always… — Jim Gaffigan
Flippancy, the most hopeless form of intellectual vice. — George Gissing
Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue. — Barry Goldwater
I was in elective politics for 24 years. I've made four national races, two for President, two for Vice President. I have found there are… — Al Gore
I actually prepared Vice President Biden for his debate in the last election. I played Sarah Palin. It's a little tough debating a woman. — Jennifer Granholm
Food is my thing, I do not smoke or drink, so food is my vice. — Kathy Griffin
How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than… — Charles Caleb Colton
He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place. — Charles Caleb Colton

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