Top 100 Vice Quotes
#1. It is not histories I am writing, but lives; and in the most glorious deeds there is not always an indication of virtue or vice, indeed a small thing like a phrase or a jest often makes a greater revelation of a character than battles where thousands die.
Plutarch
#2. I think narrators expect a high level of intimacy with their readers, and vice versa.
Tom Barbash
#3. 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
#4. It has since been agreed that speeches given in English will be translated into French and vice versa, and even into German and Italian when necessary. No doubt translations into Esperanto will also soon be in demand.
Fredrik Bajer
#5. For so it usually happens in the world. Righteous men are regarded as sinners and vice versa.
Martin Luther
#6. 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
#7. We believe in separation of church and state, that there should be no unwarranted influence on the church or religion by the state, and vice versa.
Jimmy Carter
#8. Where the state begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa.
Mikhail Bakunin
#10. He knows which fighters to steal, how to exploit anyone's vice, vanity or insecurity and make a profit for himself.
Jack Newfield
#11. I was student council president in high school, and even in law school, I was vice-president of the student bar association.
Demetri Martin
#12. The broader question if Sarah Palin becomes vice president, will she be shortchanging her kids or will she be shortchanging the country?
Amy Robach
#13. Nine-tenths of our measures for preventing vice are really protective towards it, because they ward off the penalty.
William Graham Sumner
#14. [On Vice-President Henry A. Wallace:] Much of what Mr. Wallace calls his global thinking is, no matter how you slice it, still globaloney.
Clare Boothe Luce
#16. The greatest moral failing is to condemn something as a moral failing: no vice is worse than being judgmental.
Julian Baggini
#18. Vice is a dreary business. And virtue is not a lot of fun, either.
Mason Cooley
#19. I have no more than twenty acres of ground," he replied, "the whole of which I cultivate myself with the help of my children; and our labor keeps off from us the three great evils - boredom, vice, and want.
Voltaire
#20. 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
#21. There are three opportunities that you have during a general election campaign where you can substantially move the needle of public opinion. One, is your convention speech; two, are the base; three, is the selection of your vice president.
Mark McKinnon
#22. People are always telling me that boys won't go to girls' movies and vice versa. It's not true.
Henry Selick
#23. I think Brits probably feel that Americans are more like us than vice-versa, if that makes sense. Because we get everything American over here in Britain, but yet there are things which are staunchly English that you guys don't have.
Hayley Atwell
#24. 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
#25. It cannot be a vice in men to be sensible of their strength.
Luc De Clapiers
#26. The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does.
Bill Vaughan
#27. Why do the President and Vice-President constantly change the subject when asked to explain why things are going so badly in Iraq? The answer is simple. They have been consistently wrong about Iraq, and the results speak for themselves.
Patrick Leahy
#28. Nothing is absolutely unjust. There is no real equity, no total grandeur, no pure vice, no absolute crime.
Julien Offray De La Mettrie
#29. Since an intelligence common to us all makes things known to us and formulates them in our minds, honorable actions are ascribed by us to virtue, and dishonorable actions to vice; and only a madman would conclude that these judgments are matters of opinion, and not fixed by nature.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#30. As a teenager, I was always this strange mixture of kind of vice-captain of the rugby team and sensitive artist type the rest of the time. I was sent away to this public school in the middle of nowhere, and I think we managed to completely miss out on normal youth culture.
Mark Haddon
#31. Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.
Voltaire
#33. When people began to view their neighborhood as brimming with deprivation and vice, full of "all sorts of shipwrecked humanity," they lost confidence in its political capacity.8
Matthew Desmond
#34. Vice deceives us when dressed in the garb of virtue.
Juvenal
#35. Chocolate is maybe my only vice. In particular, Godiva's champagne truffles. Or Dean & Deluca vanilla cupcakes. Just thinking about them - oh my gosh!
Shilpa Shetty
#36. The gods, as they are beneficent, if they find anyone who is healthy and whole and unscarred by vice, will send him away, surely, after crowning him, not with golden crowns, but with all sorts of blessings.
Apollonius Of Tyana
#37. God couldn't possibly love my father and hate my mother, or vice versa; that God was bigger than our ideas about him and greater than any name we might call him. p. 6
Roland Merullo
#38. But for the invert vice begins, not when he establishes a relationship (for too many reasons may govern that), but when he takes his pleasure with women.
Marcel Proust
#39. There is nothing more unsociable than man, and nothing more sociable: unsociable by his vice, sociable by his nature.
Michel De Montaigne
#40. That's when you realize you not only have no idea what you are doing, you also have no principles. You have become the "God help us if something happens to the President" Vice President.
Jim Gaffigan
#41. I need people to know that there is a group of people who are part of the leadership of the DNC, and I will make damn sure as a vice chair, and so will others, that we do everything humanly possible to have a level playing field.
Hillary Clinton
#42. Silicon Valley's involvement with Washington dates from one event, which was John Scully - who was the CEO of Apple - had dinner with President Clinton and Vice President Gore in 1993. And we're all going, like, 'What's going on? Why would we have dinner with the president?'
Eric Schmidt
#43. Donors want to meet famous people, and getting a high profile draw for a fundraiser is one way to boost both the crowd and the cash. It's why the president and the vice president are always in demand. These folks are in demand because people around the country want to meet them.
Carl Forti
#44. Money is the source of the greatest vice, and that nation which is most rich, is most wicked.
Fanny Burney
#45. For the born traveller, travelling is a besetting vice. Like other vices, it is imperious, demanding its victim's time, money, energy and the sacrifice of comfort.
Aldous Huxley
#46. The Philosopher, too, says of the wicked (Ethic. ix, 4) that "their soul is divided against itself ... one part pulls this way, another that"; and afterwards he concludes, saying: "If wickedness makes a man so miserable, he should strain every nerve to avoid vice.
Thomas Aquinas
#47. It's ludicrous to think people work for you: 'a film by ... ' doesn't exist. Directed by, maybe, but it's a film from a collective, a group of people whom you consult and seek your counsel and advice and vice versa, too.
Xavier Dolan
#48. Vice is contagious, and there is no trusting the sound and the sick together.
Seneca The Younger
#50. If a man's innate self-respect will not save him from habitual, disgusting intoxication, all the female influences in the universe would not avail. Man's will, like woman's, is stronger than the affection, and, once subjugated by vice, all eternal influences will be futile.
Augusta Jane Evans
#51. All is extremely genteel; and there is almost as much repose as in the golden saloons of the contiguous palaces. At any rate, if there be as much vice, there is as little crime.
Isaac D'Israeli
#52. Virtue hath no tongue to check vice's pride.
John Milton
#53. History teaches us virtue, but nature never ceases to teachh us vice.
Ludwig Borne
#54. Luis Figo is totally different to David Beckham, and vice versa.
Kevin Keegan
#55. We must define flattery and praise; they are distinct. Trajan was encouraged to virtue by the panegyric Pliny; Tiberius became obstinate in vice from the flattery of his senators.
Louis XVI Of France
#56. Yeah, I associate every sound with a color and vice versa.
Dev Hynes
#57. Common sense was not as common as the Deity might wish for. Indeed, not even the angelic choirs were entirely free of a certain vice known as silliness.
Vera Nazarian
#58. Libby was advised by the vice president of the United States that Wilson's wife worked at the CIA in the counterproliferation division. Libby understood that the vice president had learned this information from the CIA.
Patrick Fitzgerald
#59. Good-faith re-examination of a position you've held in the past should be seen as a virtue, not a vice.
Mark Udall
#60. My freshman year, I ran for student class president and lost. The next year, I ran for student class vice president, and I won.
Tyra Banks
#61. I won vice president of my student body in high school. That doesn't mean anything.
Al Sharpton
#62. There are some persons on whom virtue sits almost as ungraciously as vice.
Dominique Bouhours
#63. That vice has often proved an emancipator of the mind, is one of the most humiliating, but, at the same time, one of the most unquestionable facts in history.
William Edward Hartpole Lecky
#65. Of the two, I prefer those who render vice lovable to those who degrade virtue.
Joseph Joubert
#66. The vice-president of an advertising agency is a bit of executive fungus that forms on a desk that has been exposed to conference.
Fred Allen
#67. Affirmative precepts are distinguished from negative whenever one is not comprised in the other; thus, that of honoring parents does not comprise that of not killing, and vice versa.
Thomas Aquinas
#68. There is no stronger test of a person's character than power and authority, exciting as they do every passion, and discovering every latent vice.
Plutarch
#69. Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa.
Casey Stengel
#71. For years I thought what was good for our country was good for General Motors and vice versa. The difference did not exist. Our company is too big. It goes with the welfare of the country.
Charles Erwin Wilson
#72. Prohibition is an awful flop. We like it. It can't stop what it's meant to stop. We like it. It's left a trail of graft and slime It don't prohibit worth a dime It's filled our land with vice and crime, Nevertheless, we're for it.
Franklin P. Adams
#73. The facts are the vice president's company that he was CEO of, that did business with sworn enemies of the United States, paid millions of dollars in fines for providing false financial information, it's under investigation for bribing foreign officials.
John Edwards
#74. Just as, at least in one religion, accidia is the first of the cardinal sins, so bordom, and particularly the incredible circumstance of waking up bored, was the only vice Bond utterly condemned.
Ian Fleming
#75. My ex-husband and I, even though we're not together, we are 100 percent together in raising our kid. We communicate a lot and where I drop the ball and need him to pick it up or vice versa, he's there.
Charisma Carpenter
#76. Nor is it the least advantage to health, accruing from such a way of life, that it expose those who follow it to fewer temptations to vice, than persons who live in crowded society.
William Falconer
#77. Just because someone uses Twitter doesn't mean they shouldn't use WordPress, and vice versa.
Matt Mullenweg
#78. Solemnity is proper in church, but things that are proper in church are not necessarily proper outside, and vice versa. For example, I can say a prayer while washing my teeth, but that does not mean I should wash my teeth in church.
C.S. Lewis
#79. How can we explain the perpetuity of envy
a vice which yields no return?
Honore De Balzac
#80. Play more than one sport in high school. If you play, say, football and basketball, you can learn to be physical and you can take those physical aspects of both sports and become better in both sports. Basketball players use some of the same skills football players do and vice versa.
Antonio Gates
#81. Wit, like hunger, will be with great difficulty restrained from falling on vice and ignorance, where there is great plenty and variety of food.
Henry Fielding
#82. The life of a good man is at the same time the most eloquent lesson of virtue and the most severe reproof of vice.
Samuel Smiles
#83. Though folly, robed in purple, shines, Though vice exhausts Peruvian mines, Yet shall they tremble and turn pale When satire wields her mighty flail.
Charles Churchill
#84. Could it be that even his ideas about vice had changed? Vice used to be a harmless word. You were entitled to your private vice, so long as it hurt no one and pleased a few.
Bhabani Bhattacharya
#85. 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
#86. Little by little, or maybe all at once, everything comes to mean its opposite; unreason argues itself into reason, and vice versa, and we cannot see the seams.
Joseph Heller
#87. Remember, no one decides who they're going to vote for based on the vice president. I mean that literally.
Joe Biden
#88. Letting go - abandoning, relinquishing - is actually the same mind state as generosity. So the practice of giving deeply influences the feeling tone of our meditation practice, and vice versa.
Sharon Salzberg
#89. That the American, by temperament, worked to excess, was true; work and whiskey were his stimulants; work was a form of vice; but he never cared much for money or power after he earned them.
Henry Adams
#90. Now, I don't think President Obama and Vice President Biden get the credit they deserve for saving us from the worst economic crisis of our lifetimes. Our economy is so much stronger than when they took office.
Hillary Clinton
#91. every man's admirable qualities (kindness, charm, intelligence, cute butt--you name it) had an evil twin waiting in the shadows to bite her in the ass when she'd least expected it. It hadn't taken a Ph.D. in philosophy to teach Jessica James that virtue was just the flip side of vice. A
Kelly Oliver
#93. Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.
Samuel Johnson
#94. It seems very unfortunate that in order to secure political preference, people are made Vice President who are never intended, neither by party nor by the Lord, to be Presidents.
Omar N. Bradley
#95. He that is good, will infallibly become better, and he that is bad, will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue and time are three things that never stand still.
Charles Caleb Colton
#96. It is incredibly presumptive for somebody who has not yet earned his party's nomination to start speculating about vice presidents.
George W. Bush
#97. If you want to - if you want to engage in conspiracy theories that the White House and the vice president intended no one to ever know - like "The New York Times" - we would have been kept in the dark forever. I just think that's completely irrational.
Kate O'Beirne
#98. SohelpmeGod if there weren't a hundred people staring at us, I would have his nuts in a vice. A steel one. With teeth.
Alessandra Torre
#100. Probably more than any concrete vice or failing Amory despised his own personality - he loathed knowing that to-morrow and the thousand days after he would sell pompously at a compliment and sulk at an ill word like a third-rate musician or a first-class actor.
F Scott Fitzgerald
