Top 100 Quotes About Vices
#1. There are good one-day players, there are good Test players and vice versa
Trevor Bailey
#2. All mystical experience is coincidence; and vice versa, of course.
Tom Stoppard
#3. Should you be unfortunate enough to have vices, you may, to a certain degree, even dignify them by a strict observance of decorum;at least they will lose something of their natural turpitude.
Lord Chesterfield
#4. Slavery is the parent of ignorance, and ignorance begets a whole brood of follies and vices; and every one of these is inevitably hostile to literary culture.
Hinton Rowan Helper
#5. We implore the mercy of God, not that He may leave us at peace in our vices, but that He may deliver us from them.
Blaise Pascal
#6. Dancing is why I love music as much as I do and vice-versa, and there aren't many things better than those two combined.
Dianna Agron
#7. Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.
Alexander Pope
#8. Do not spill thy soul in running hither and yon, grieving over the mistakes and the vices of others. The one person whom it is most necessary to reform is yourself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#9. The moral cement of all society is virtue; it unites and preserves, while vice separates and destroys.
Charles Caleb Colton
#10. We see the pernicious effects of luxury in the ancient Romans, who immediately found themselves poor as soon as this vice got footing among them.
Joseph Addison
#11. People always pay a lot of money for things that make them stupid.
Dan Simmons
#12. The greatest temptations are not those that solicit our consent to obvious sin, but those that offer us great evils masking as the greatest goods.
Thomas Merton
#14. The vices of youth now exceed my powers, but not my fancy.
Mason Cooley
#16. I deserved better than to be bullshitted by the vice president,
Dick Armey
#17. Drunkenness is the vice of a good constitution or of a bad memory of a constitution so treacherously good that it never bends till it breaks; or of a memory that recollects the pleasures of getting intoxicated, but forgets the pains of getting sober.
Charles Caleb Colton
#18. Coercion may prevent many transgressions; but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom may lead to many transgressions, but it lends even to vices a less ignoble form.
Wilhelm Von Humboldt
#19. Great parts produce great vices as well as virtues.
Plato
#20. Extremism is the pursuit of the presidency is an unpardonable vice. Moderation in the affairs of the nation is the highest virtue.
Lyndon B. Johnson
#21. I began to learn about the camera and the actors. That gave me a lot of the skills. At the same time, advertising gives you a lot of vices, for example, an obsession for a superficial look, but at the same time, it gives you the capacity to synthesize the story - tell a story in one minute.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
#22. Good parents have children who do terrible things and vice-versa.
Terry McMillan
#24. Fattened in vice, so callous and so gross, he sins and sees not, senseless of his loss.
John Dryden
#25. 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, in all creatures, and out of many men's perfections in a science he formed still one Art.
Ben Jonson
#26. SAUCE, n. The one infallible sign of civilization and enlightenment. A people with no sauces has one thousand vices; a people with one sauce has only nine hundred and ninety-nine. For every sauce invented and accepted a vice is renounced and forgiven.
Ambrose Bierce
#27. Constancy has nothing virtuous in itself, independently of the pleasure it confers, and partakes of the temporizing spirit of vice in proportion as it endures tamely moral defects of magnitude in the object of its indiscreet choice.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#28. Hostility to youth is the worst vice of the middle-aged.
J. A. Spender
#29. The sum of all vices does not remain constant. Each one breeds another.
David Lagercrantz
#30. Young men make wars, and the virtues of war are the virtues of young men: courage, and hope for the future. Then old men make the peace, and the vices of peace are the vices of old men: mistrust and caution.
Alec Guinness
#31. If it is a virtue to love my neighbor as a human being, it must be a virtue - and not a vice - to love myself, since I am a human being too.
Erich Fromm
#32. If we escape punishment for our vices, why should we complain if we are not rewarded for our virtues?
John Churton Collins
#34. He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
[On British Labour politician Stafford Cripps.]
Winston S. Churchill
#36. I have a number of vices, one of which is moderation.
E.L. Doctorow
#37. I will perform the function of a whetstone, which is about to restore sharpness to iron, though itself unable to cut.
[Lat., Fungar vice cotis, acutum
Reddere quae ferrum valet, exsors ipsi secandi.]
Horace
#38. Every vice is already a punishment in itself ... you don't need a ticket on top of it.
Doug Stanhope
#39. Lust is a sharp spur to vice, which always putteth the affections into a false gallop.
Francis Quarles
#40. Envy, the meanest of vices, creeps on the ground like a serpent.
Ovid
#41. It is certainly more creditable to cultivate the earth for the sustenance of man, than to be the confidant, and sometimes the accomplice, of his vices; which is the profession of a lawyer.
Mary Shelley
#42. 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 great men, so it is likewise reformed by their moderation.
Thomas Carlyle
#43. Virtue and vice are concepts invented by human beings, words for a morality which human beings arbitrarily devised.
Osamu Dazai
#45. Aesthetic culture is not the high-road to all the virtues, and, indeed, certain of the vices have been known to infest it. Neither, on the other hand, is there any special grace in ugliness. Art is only utterance. It must express something; and the vital question is, what does it express?
Lewis Foreman Day
#47. The universe is all about balance. The forces of light and darkness are meant to keep a check on one another. If one becomes too powerful and starts overrunning the other, that balance will be upset. For the tyranny of virtue is as unbearable as the stranglehold of vice.
Shatrujeet Nath
#49. To superficial minds, the vices of the great seem at all times agreeable.
Adam Smith
#50. Viceis a creature of such heejous mienthat th' more ye see it th' betther ye like it.
Finley Peter Dunne
#51. Never," said my aunt, "be mean in anything; never be false; never be cruel. Avoid those three vices, Trot, and I can always be hopeful of you.
Charles Dickens
#54. We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.
Saint Augustine
#55. Education must have two foundations
morality as a support for virtue, prudence as a defense for self against the vices of others. By letting the balance incline to the side of morality, you only make dupes or martyrs; by letting it incline to the other, you make calculating egoists.
Nicolas Chamfort
#56. No vice exists which does not pretend to be more or less like some virtue, and which does not take advantage of this assumed resemblance.
Jean De La Bruyere
#57. Mr Pin lit a cigar. Smoking was his one vice. at least, it was his only vice that he thought of as a vice. The others were just job skills.
Terry Pratchett
#58. MUGWUMP, n. In politics one afflicted with self-respect and addicted to the vice of independence. A term of contempt.
Ambrose Bierce
#60. Most virtue lies between two vices.
Horace
#61. Satan is attacking the great institutions of America, using those great vices of pride, vanity, and sensuality as the root to attack all of the strong plants that has so deeply rooted in the American tradition.
Rick Santorum
#63. Some, by admiring other men's virtues, become enemies to their own vices.
Bias Of Priene
#64. And remember also that in fighting against man we must not come to resemble him. Even when you have conquered him, do not adopt his vices.
George Orwell
#65. If it had been any different, if I had been born just one minute later, or been in the wrong pace at the right time or vice versa, the life that I've lived and come to love would not exist. And that is a situation that I would not want to consider in the slightest.
Slash
#66. The most glorious exploits do not always furnish us with the clearest discoveries of virtue or vice in men.
Plutarch
#67. A happy people I call them still, whose peace and genuine morals have not been contaminated with European vices; and whose errorsare only the errors of ignorance, and not the rooted depravity of a pretended civilization, and a spurious and mock Christianity.
John Gabriel Stedman
#68. Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#69. I don't drink anymore ... I freeze it and eat it like a popsicle.
Dean Martin
#70. Jehovah was not a moral god. He had all the vices and he lacked all the virtues. He generally carried out all his threats, but he never faithfully kept a promise.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#72. IDLENESS, n. A model farm where the devil experiments with seeds of new sins and promotes the growth of staple vices.
Ambrose Bierce
#73. The mere abhorrence of vice is not a virtue at all.
Bergen Evans
#74. He thought of the old commonplace about how giving up vices didn't make you live longer, but just made it feel as though you were living longer.
John Connolly
#75. O Lord, I wish to promote thy holy religion which is dreadfully neglected. I am desirous to save young persons from the vices of the age.
Sarah Trimmer
#76. If you would reform the world from its errors and vices, begin by enlisting the mothers.
Charles Simmons
#77. Patriotism means unqualified and unwavering love for the nation, which implies not uncritical eagerness to serve, not support for unjust claims, but frank assessment of its vices and sins, and penitence for them.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#78. When we are sick our virtues and our vices are in abeyance.
Luc De Clapiers
#79. High fortune makes both our virtues and vices stand out as objects that are brought clearly to view by the light.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#80. The reason that men are so slow to confess their vices is because they have not yet abandoned them.
Henry Ward Beecher
#81. Capitalism is being attacked not because it is inefficient or misgoverned but because it is cynical. And indeed a society based on the assertion that private vices become public benefits cannot endure, no matter how impeccable its logic, no matter how great its benefits.
Peter Drucker
#82. The three great American vices seem to be efficiency, punctuality, and the desire for achievement and success. They are the things that make the Americans so unhappy and so nervous.
Lin Yutang
#83. You have been paying blackmail, not for your vices, but for your virtues.
Ayn Rand
#84. I didn't have any vices before the Internet. There are a lot of cracks in the day, moments where you don't know what to do next, so you have a little hole where you look at your phone. You want something that will mean you're not alone in that moment.
Miranda July
#85. Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
Aristophanes
#86. The extremes of vice and virtue are alike detestable, and absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is.
Samuel Butler
#88. Our virtues make us; but virtues are not enough, we must deploy our vices at times.
Hilary Mantel
#89. Luxury and dissipation, soft and gentle as their approaches are, and silently as they throw their silken chains about the heart, enslave it more than the most active and turbulent vices
Hannah More
#91. Excellence or virtue is a settled disposition of the mind that determines our choice of actions and emotions and consists essentially in observing the mean relative to us ... a mean between two vices, that which depends on excess and that which depends on defect.
Aristotle.
#92. For me, I go in and play a few Christian songs for an audience, and now I have people come up and not tell me I'm great, but tell me that my music is helping save their lives, helping them in the Lord, and helping them end their vices.
Rick Derringer
#93. We often credit ourselves with vices the reverse of what we have, thus when weak we boast of our obstinacy.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#94. Without enthusiasm, virtue functions not at all, and vice only poorly.
Mignon McLaughlin
#95. If we tread our vices under our feet, we make of them a ladder by which to rise to higher things.
Saint Augustine
#96. No one in Germany laughs at vice, nor do they call it the fashion to corrupt and to be corrupted.
Tacitus
#97. There is no vice or folly that requires so much nicety and skill to manage as vanity; nor any which by ill management makes so contemptible a figure.
Jonathan Swift
#98. If I, being what I am, can consider that I am in some sense a Christian, why should the different vices of those people in the next pew prove that their religion is mere hypocrisy and convention?
C.S. Lewis
#99. A habit is a stable disposition to act in a certain way, good or evil. Virtues are good habits; vices are bad habits.
Peter Kreeft
#100. But in all the annals of human vice, no power is as destructive or demonic as perverted sincerity
G. B. Caird
