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Vices Quotes by William Hazlitt
- It is the vice of scholars to suppose that there is no knowledge in the world but that of books.
- Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit -- or a mask. . . . The foregoing maxim shows the difference between truth and sarcasm.
- A man in love prefers his passion to every other consideration, and is fonder of his mistress than he is of virtue. Should she prove…
- Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit--or a mask.
- Vice, like disease, floats in the atmosphere.
- The fear of punishment may be necessary to the suppression of vice; but it also suspends the finer motives of virtue.
- 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…
- 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…
- The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.
- There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.
More Vices Quotes
- All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. — Aristotle
- Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up. — Mary Astell
- We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot. — Saint Augustine
- It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations. — Walter Bagehot
- Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice. — Abu Bakr
- Where the state begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa. — Mikhail Bakunin
- When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa. — Honore de Balzac
- Here's a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once. — Tallulah Bankhead
- Fast cars are my only vice. — Michael Bay
- Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself. — Henry Ward Beecher
- It is all about marketing; that is where the real craft comes in. The best actors do not necessarily become the biggest… — Dirk Benedict
- Karma brings us ever back to rebirth, binds us to the wheel of births and deaths. Good Karma drags us back as… — Annie Besant