Top 100 Vice Of Quotes
#1. 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
#2. Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.
Bertrand Russell
#3. Calumny is a vice of curious constitution; trying to kill it keeps it alive; leave it to itself and it will die a natural death.
Thomas Paine
#4. Hostility to youth is the worst vice of the middle-aged.
J. A. Spender
#5. MUGWUMP, n. In politics one afflicted with self-respect and addicted to the vice of independence. A term of contempt.
Ambrose Bierce
#7. The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the
inherent vice of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston S. Churchill
#8. It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness.
E. M. Forster
#9. Prodigality is indeed the vice of a weak nature, as avarice is of a strong one; it comes of a weak craving for those blandishments of the world which are easily to be had for money, and which, when obtained, are as much worse than worthless as a harlot's love is worse than none.
Henry Taylor
#10. Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome.
Angela Carter
#11. Every virtue can come with its own accompanying vice. The virtue of reticence can yield the vice of aloofness.
David Brooks
#12. Though the wisdom or virtue of one can very rarely make many happy, the folly or vice of one man often make many miserable.
Samuel Johnson
#13. I forsee a marked deterioration in American musicand a host of other injuries to music in its artistic manifestations, by virtue - or rather by vice - of the multiplication of the various music-reproducing machines
John Philip Sousa
#14. Their guess turned out to be right, but one is reminded of E. T. Bell's remark that the great vice of the Greeks was not sodomy but extrapolation.
John D. Clark
#15. All you will have is the present. Waste no energy crying over yesterday or dreaming of tomorrow. Nostalgia is fatiguing and destructive, it is the vice of the expatriate. You must put down roots as if they were forever, you must have a sense of permanence.
Isabel Allende
#16. In things to be seen at once, much variety makes confusion, another vice of beauty. In things that are not seen at once, and have no respect one to another, great variety is commendable, provided this variety transgress not the rules of optics and geometry.
Christopher Wren
#17. We are human less by virtue of our ideal goals than by the vice of our inferiority.
James Hillman
#18. Some think to avoid the influence of metaphysical errors, by paying no attention to metaphysics; but experience shows that these men beyond all others are held in an iron vice of metaphysical theory, because by theories that they have never called in question.
Charles Sanders Peirce
#19. All the wounds of society, the wounds of poverty, of vice, of ignorance - all will be laid bare. Is there not something re-assuring in this?
Leo Tolstoy
#20. Every vice of the Empire has been repeated in the Foundation. Inertia! Our ruling class knows one law; no
change. Despotism! They know one rule; force. Maldistribution! They know one desire; to hold what is
theirs.
Isaac Asimov
#21. Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.
Honore De Balzac
#22. The first vice of the first woman was curiosity, and it runs through the whole sex.
Samuel Richardson
#23. What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends.
Ambrose Bierce
#24. This is the great vice of academicism, that it is concerned with ideas rather than with thinking.
Lionel Trilling
#25. Somehow strangely the vice of men gets well represented and protected but their virtue has none to plead its cause - nor any charter of immunities and rights.
Henry David Thoreau
#27. It is the besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which the masses of men exhibit their tyranny.
James F. Cooper
#28. It is hardly fair to blame America for the state of San Francisco, for its population is cosmopolitan and its seaport attracts the floating vice of the Pacific; but be the cause what it may, there is much room for spiritual betterment.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#29. In those days the worst vice in England was pride, I guess - the worst vice of all, because folks thought it was a virtue.
Carol Ryrie Brink
#30. Counsel and conversation is a good second education, that improves all the virtue and corrects all the vice of the former, and of nature itself.
Edward Hyde, 1st Earl Of Clarendon
#31. Jealousy, in spite of the mad frenzy of its most splendid displays, is a vice of weakness; it arises from a mind whose aspirations and desires are inferior to its accomplishments; it is the child of baulked vanity and failure of courage.
Arthur Alfred Lynch
#32. If God existed, he, for sure, had a vice of his own, a woman he could not say no to and, he would have acted the same way if he were in Johnny Kiddow's position.
Nina -
#33. Jewish history has been tragic to the Jews and no less tragic to the neighboring nations who have suffered them. Our major vice of old as of today is parasitism. We are a people of vultures living on the labor and good fortune of the rest of the world.
Samuel Roth
#34. Of all the causes which conspire to blind
Man's erring judgement, and misguide the mind,
What the weak head with strongest bias rules,
Is PRIDE, the never-failing vice of fools.
Alexander Pope
#35. The Roman Christian mythology (and theology) discourages the vice of licentiousness, and so this is better than the heathen, but it encourages bigotry, hypocrisy, cant, and many another vice which the older Mother of Abominations kept clear from.
Theodore Parker
#36. By vulgarity I mean that vice of civilization which makes man ashamed of himself and his next of kin, and pretend to be somebody else.
Solomon Schechter
#37. It is the vice of scholars to suppose that there is no knowledge in the world but that of books.
William Hazlitt
#38. Atheism is the vice of a few intelligent people.
Voltaire
#39. It is the common vice of all, in old age, to be too intent upon our interests.
Terence
#40. Arrogance was the vice of good leaders. - Prior Philip
Ken Follett
#41. The way the Americans strive for gold; and their breathless haste in working - the true vice of the new world.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#42. He who feels that the vice of avarice has got hold of him, should not wish to observe fasts of supererogation, but to give alms.
Philip Neri
#43. The worst vice of a fanatic is his sincerity.
Oscar Wilde
#44. Persecution for opinion is the master vice of society.
Frances Wright
#45. The worst vice of the fanatic is his sincerity.
Oscar Wilde
#46. The vice of envy is not only a dangerous, but a mean vice; for it is always a confession of inferiority. It may promote conduct which will be fruitful of wrong to others, and it must cause misery to the man who feels it.
Theodore Roosevelt
#47. A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.
Theodore Roosevelt
#49. The peculiarity of ill temper is that it is the vice of the virtuous.
Henry Drummond
#51. If a misplaced admiration shows imbecility, an affected criticism shows vice of character. Expose thyself rather to appear a beast than false.
Denis Diderot
#52. Be not under the dominion of thine own will; it is the vice of the ignorant, who vainly presume on their own understanding.
Miguel De Cervantes
#53. [L]et us talk about the unholy vice of self-esteem, the beginning and completion of the passions; and let us talk briefly, for to undertake an exhaustive discussion would be to act like someone who inquires into the weight of the winds.
John Climacus
#54. It is the vice of the journalist, I once wrote, to think that history can always be reduced to experience, and of the scholar to think that experience can always be reduced to history. History and experience are far more frequently out of sync, or running on parallel tracks.
Adam Gopnik
#55. It is amusing that a virtue is made of the vice of chastity; and it's a pretty odd sort of chastity at that, which leads men straight into the sin of Onan, and girls to the waning of their color.
Voltaire
#56. Avarice is rarely the vice of youth ...
Sophia Lee
#57. Who was it who said that every virtue contains its corresponding vice? C.S. Lewis? Virginia Woolf? You forget. But it has always worried you that what the virtue of wit contained was the vice of scorn.
Kevin Brockmeier
#59. Never take advice about never taking advice. That is an old vice of men - to dish it out without being able to take it - the blind leading the blind into more blindness.
Criss Jami
#61. If this be an ordered selfishness, then we should pause before we condemn anyone for the vice of egoism, for there may be deeper roots for its causes than we have knowledge of.
Bram Stoker
#62. The great vice of democracy is that for a generation we have been busy getting ourselves on to the list of beneficiaries and removing ourselves from the list of contributors, as if somewhere there was somebody else's effort on which we could thrive.
Robert Menzies
#63. As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever be the vice of the most exalted characters.
Edward Gibbon
#64. Amplification is the vice of modern oratory. It is an insult to an assembly of reasonable men, disgusting and revolting instead ofpersuading. Speeches measured by the hour, die by the hour.
Thomas Jefferson
#65. And was disposed too often to idealize as a virtue that habit of mean subservience to wealth and social position which, after more than half a century of political democracy, is still the characteristic and odious vice of the Englishman.
R. H. Tawney
#66. My sobriety isn't up for discussion, but as for vices, I seem to hack away at them with my invisible machete from dawn till dusk. The vice of 'more' is an ongoing theme.
Anthony Kiedis
#67. Craving for power is not a vice of the body, consequently it knows none of the limitations imposed by a tired or satiated physiology upon gluttony, intemperance and lust
Aldous Huxley
#69. The main vice of capitalism is the uneven distribution of prosperity. The main vice of socialism is the even distribution of misery.
Winston Churchill
#70. The common vice of democracy is disregard for morality.
Lord Acton
#71. There is no vice, of which a man can be guilty, no meanness, no shabbiness, no unkindness, which excited so much indignation among his contemporaries, friends and neighbors, as his success. This is the one unpardonable crime, which reason cannot defend, nor [can] humility mitigate.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#72. I think the vice of our housekeeping is that it does not hold man sacred. The vice of government, the vice of education, the viceof religion, is one with that of the private life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#73. It is a frequent vice of radical polemic to assert, and even to believe, that once you have found the lowest motive for an antagonist, you have identified the correct one.
Christopher Hitchens
#74. The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food.
Cyril Connolly
#75. Manchester has everything but good looks ... , the only place in England which escapes our characteristic vice of snobbery.
A.J.P. Taylor
#76. Pride is said to be the last vice the good man gets clear of ...
Benjamin Franklin
#77. Baudelaires had visited the office of Vice Principal Nero and learned about all of the academy's strict and unfair rules. When they worked
Lemony Snicket
#78. All mystical experience is coincidence; and vice versa, of course.
Tom Stoppard
#79. There's this tendency to think of the individual and the collective are somehow at odds or separate. But I think that's really false. We're all both. And when the individual suffers, the collective suffers, and vice versa.
Eula Biss
#80. 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
#81. 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
#82. The moral cement of all society is virtue; it unites and preserves, while vice separates and destroys.
Charles Caleb Colton
#83. Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it.
Harriet Martineau
#84. 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
#85. No exile at the South Pole or on the summit of Mont Blanc separates us more effectively from others than the practice of a hidden vice.
Marcel Proust
#86. 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
#87. Life works on strange laws of nature (Karma).
One never knows when a friend turns enemy & vice-versa.
Rely on your Self; self-reliance
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#88. Virtue, thou in rags, may challenge more than vice set off with all the trim of greatness.
Philip Massinger
#89. The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
Samuel Butler
#90. It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd.
Henry Miller
#91. The healing of the land is dependant on, and incomplete without, the healing of the people, and vice versa.
Cara Krmpotich
#92. Sarah Palin has managed to use her failed vice presidential run to put herself in a position of power and influence. Joe Biden won the race and he hasn't been able to put himself in a position of power and influence.
Craig Ferguson
#93. Without knowledge there can be no sure progress. Vice and barbarism are the inseparable companions of ignorance. Nor is it too much to say that, except in rare instances, the highest virtue is attained only through intelligence.
Charles Sumner
#94. Thought and language are to the artist instruments of an art. Vice and virtue are to the artist materials for an art.
Oscar Wilde
#95. 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
#96. The greatest slave is not he who is ruled by a despot, great though that evil be, but he who is in the thrall of his own moral ignorance, selfishness, and vice.
Samuel Smiles
#97. 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 be Al Gore to your wife's Bill Clinton. She feels the pain and you are the annoying nerd telling them to turn off the lights.
Jim Gaffigan
#98. If a wretched man has a vice, it shows itself in the lines of his mouth, the droop of his eyelids, the moulding of his hands even. Somebody--I
Oscar Wilde
#99. Fattened in vice, so callous and so gross, he sins and sees not, senseless of his loss.
John Dryden
#100. Two persons have been elected to the offices of President and Vice-President exclusively by the people of ONE SECTION of the country ... A clearer case of foreign domination could not well be presented.
John Willis Ellis
