Top 100 Vice Is Quotes
#1. I always listen to music, my passion and vice is music, I will be denied access to heaven because of the number of CDs I own, and I have gluttony for all types and colours of music.
Anthony Minghella
#3. The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
Samuel Butler
#5. 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
#6. Every vice is already a punishment in itself ... you don't need a ticket on top of it.
Doug Stanhope
#7. My secret vice is Sudoku puzzles. Can't stop playing them. My parents are accountants. I blame them entirely.
Lisa Gardner
#8. Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#9. The mere abhorrence of vice is not a virtue at all.
Bergen Evans
#10. The word which gives the key to the national vice is waste. And people who are wasteful are not wise, neither can they remain young and vigorous. In order to transmute energy to higher and more subtle levels one must first conserve it.
Henry Miller
#11. 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
#12. The most effective way of attacking vice is to expose it to public ridicule. People can put up with rebukes but they cannot bear being laughed at: they are prepared to be wicked but they dislike appearing ridiculous.
Moliere
#13. It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice; I consider the real vice is making losses.
Winston Churchill
#15. Moral virtue is the quality of acting in the best way in relation to pleasures and pains, and that vice is the opposite.
Aristotle.
#16. When poverty is more disgraceful than even vice, is not morality cut to the quick?
Mary Wollstonecraft
#17. Vice is a wonderful thing," Catherine said. "The people who go in for it seem to have good taste about it.
Ernest Hemingway,
#18. Ambition, in a private man is a vice, is in a prince the virtue.
Philip Massinger
#19. Weakness ever sympathizes with vice, because vice is a weakness which assumes the mask of strength. Madness holds reason in horror, and on all subjects it delights in the exaggerations of falsehood. The cause of all bewitchments, the poison of all philtres, the power of all sorcerers are there.
Eliphas Levi
#20. Virtue sometimes pretends. Vice is always sincere.
Mason Cooley
#24. My biggest vice is playing solitaire on my iPad. It's bad. I mean, it's ridiculous.
Diane Von Furstenberg
#26. Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
Marquis De Sade
#27. Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
Petrarch
#28. No more astounding relic of the subjection of women survives in western civilization than the status of the prostitute ... In connection with what other illegal vice is the seller alone penalized, and not the buyer?
Crystal Eastman
#29. Greed is the seed of corruption
as much as virtue is the seed of justice.
Wisdom is the seed of success
as much as vice is the seed of destruction.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#30. A vice is merely a pleasure to which somebody has objected.
Robin Skelton
#31. Betrayed and wronged in everything,
I'll flee this bitter world where vice is king,
And seek some spot unpeopled and apart
Where I'll be free to have an honest heart.
Moliere
#32. Error is to be pitied and pardoned: it is the weakness of human nature. But vice is a foul blemish, not pardonable in any character.
Thomas Jefferson
#34. The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal it.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#35. To secure approval one must remain within the bounds of conventional mediocrity. Whatever lies beyond, whether it be greater insight and virtue, or greater stolidity and vice, is condemned. The noblest men, like the worst criminals, have been done to death.
John Lancaster Spalding
#36. I rarely drink, I don't smoke, so my vice is probably creating. I'm addicted to creating. And women.
Andre Benjamin
#37. Vice is nice, but a little virtue won't hurt you.
Edward Gorey
#38. Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
Ben Jonson
#39. A vice is merely a pleasure that someone else has objected to.
Robin Skelton
#40. My worst vice is also my best vice. It's my empathy and my love for people-it can wear me out. I rarely can turn a person in need down or because I love people, I love energy.
Meredith Brooks
#41. Vice is a monster of so frightful mien
As to be hated needs but to be seen;
Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face,
We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
Alexander Pope
#42. To hold fealty to your own and to call it a high virtue is ludicrous. Even animals protect their own. It is a good, but it is a common good, an easy one. It's a miser who says he grows rich not for himself, but for his children. His vice is not thus magically made virtue.
Brent Weeks
#44. [Ridicule] laughs at all those who see the earnestness of life and who still believe in true feelings and in serious thought ... It soils the hope of youth. Only shameless vice is above its reach.
Madame De Stael
#46. Truly, this vice is never to be compared with any other vice because it surpasses the enormity of all vices ... It defiles everything, stains everything, pollutes everything. And as for itself, it permits nothing pure, nothing clean, nothing other than filth ...
Peter Damian
#47. A little less vice is virtuousness in a very vicious heart
Marquis De Sade
#48. Absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is, let alone the dullness of it and the pomposities of it.
Samuel Beckett
#49. A vice is a thing which may be applauded in moderation but becomes horrific in overuse.
Graham Moore
#50. The supreme vice is shallowness. Whatever is realised is wrong.
Oscar Wilde
#52. The problem with leftism as a vice is that everyone else is stuck with the hangover.
Greg Gutfeld
#53. Vice is a peripatetic, always in progression.
Owen Feltham
#54. I used to smoke cigarettes, ten a day, but gave up when I was 28. Now my vice is several cups of coffee a day, which isn't great if you're prone to weak bones as I am, as caffeine can leach calcium.
Britt Ekland
#55. Virtue is according to nature; vice is opposed to it and hostile.
Seneca.
#56. Ambrosio was yet to learn, that to an heart unacquainted with her, Vice is ever most dangerous when lurking behind the Mask of Virtue.
Matthew Gregory Lewis
#59. My only vice is 'Keeping up With The Kardashians.' I can't really explain what it is that fascinates me so much, but it just sucks me in.
Gia Coppola
#60. Your only vice is yourself. The worst of all. The really incurable one.
Alfred Hayes
#61. But virtue too, as well as vice, is clad in flesh and blood.
Edmund Waller
#63. People think because 'Vice' is irreverent and because we're crazy, we're stunt journalists. You know what? I don't actually care.
Shane Smith
#65. One doesn't have to operate with great malice to do great harm. The absence of empathy and understanding are sufficient. In fact, a man convinced of his virtue even in the midst of his vice is the worst kind of man.
Charles M. Blow
#66. All pleasure is a vice, for seeking pleasure is what everybody does in life, and the only dark vice is doing what everybody does.
Fernando Pessoa
#67. Vice is a creature of such hideous mien ... that the more you see it the better you like it.
Finley Peter Dunne
#70. It is for you and me to show that no vice is inherent in man.
Mahatma Gandhi
#71. Goodness is equally hateful to the wicked, as vice is to the virtuous.
Jane Porter
#73. I find it awfully difficult to determine if the habit of talking about oneself at length runs contrary to the basic rules of propriety, or if instead the man exempt from this vice is rare.
Giacomo Leopardi
#74. To all the rest of his Absurdities, (for vice is always unreasonable,) he adds one more, who expects that Vertue from another which he won't practise himself.
Mary Astell
#75. Vice is contagious, and there is no trusting the sound and the sick together.
Seneca The Younger
#76. My worst vice is gluttony. I try to keep myself under control because I'm an athlete, but once a week I like to pig out and act like a normal person.
Gianluigi Buffon
#77. In the kitchens of love, after all, vice is like the pepper in a good sauce; it brings out the flavor, it's indispensable.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
#78. Vice is a dreary business. And virtue is not a lot of fun, either.
Mason Cooley
#79. The greatest moral failing is to condemn something as a moral failing: no vice is worse than being judgmental.
Julian Baggini
#80. The true guide of our conduct is no outward authority, but the voice of God, who comes down to dwell in our souls, who knows all our thoughts, to whom are owing all the truth we know, and all the good we do; for vice is voluntary, and virtue comes from the grace of the heavenly spirit within.
Lord Acton
#81. There should be no such thing as a vice law. Every vice is only a bad habit, and the punishment is inherent in the act.
Doug Stanhope
#82. In Paris extremes are made to meet by passion. Vice is constantly binding the rich to the poor, the great to the mean.
Honore De Balzac
#83. Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps.
Quentin Crisp
#85. Pride is said to be the last vice the good man gets clear of ...
Benjamin Franklin
#86. All mystical experience is coincidence; and vice versa, of course.
Tom Stoppard
#87. There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.
William Hazlitt
#88. 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
#89. Vice foments war; it is virtue which actually fights. If there were no virtue, we would live in peace forever.
Luc De Clapiers
#90. Because impudence is a vice, it does not follow that modesty is a virtue; it is built upon shame, a passion in our nature, and may be either good or bad according to the actions performed from that motive.
Bernard De Mandeville
#91. of light and life, thou Good Supreme! O teach me what is good; teach me Thyself! Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit; and fill my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure; Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss!
Benjamin Franklin
#92. The moral cement of all society is virtue; it unites and preserves, while vice separates and destroys.
Charles Caleb Colton
#93. This diary is my kief, hashish and opium pipe. This is my drug and my vice.
Anais Nin
#94. The common people do not judge of vice or virtue by morality or immorality, so much as by the stamp that is set upon it by men of figure.
Roger L'Estrange
#95. I'm very lucky that my husband is a true partner in child-rearing. If I get home late, he gets home early or vice-versa. I travel more, and he's able to spell me when I'm gone.
Bonnie Hammer
#96. One thing that struck me early is that you don't put into a photograph what's going to come out. Or, vice versa, what comes out is not what you put in.
Diane Arbus
#97. It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd.
Henry Miller
#98. But we, Equality 7-2521, are glad to be living. If this is a vice, then we wish no virtue.
Ayn Rand
#99. 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
#100. The healing of the land is dependant on, and incomplete without, the healing of the people, and vice versa.
Cara Krmpotich
