Ashamed Quote by Vaclav Havel

A vice is merely a pleasure to which somebody has objected.

— Robin Skelton

Ownership is not a general feature of our society, determining its character. On the contrary, dependence on a precarious wage at the will of…

— Hilaire Belloc

“A vice is merely a pleasure that someone else has objected to.”

— Robin Skelton

all the vices are seasoned with pride just as the virtues are seasoned and enlivened by charity.

— St. Catherine of Siena

“Vices have to masquerade as virtues — lust as love, thinly veiled sadism as military discipline, envy as righteous indignation, domestic tyranny as parental concern.”

— Cornelius Plantinga Jr

It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

— Samuel Butler

In sum, all actions and habits are to be esteemed good or evil by their causes and usefulness in reference to the commonwealth, and…

— Thomas Hobbes

The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

— Samuel Butler

People's lives are filled with vice and the trappings of it. Ambition, greed and selfishness all have to do with vice. Sooner or later,…

— Bob Dylan

There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.

— Oliver Goldsmith

If vices were profitable, the virtuous man would be the sinner.

— Francis Bacon

Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

— Charles Dickens