Top 100 Vices Virtues Quotes
#1. You instinctively display the greatest virtue, or rather the chief defect, of us eccentric Parisians- that is, you assume the vices you have not, and conceal the virtues you possess.
Alexandre Dumas
#2. The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.
Elizabeth Taylor
#3. Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised.
Juvenal
#4. No writer besides Shakespeare has created more memorable characters attached to vices and virtues. In even their least sympathetic characters, one senses a kind of helplessness to passion quivering between the poles of good and evil.
Roger Rosenblatt
#5. Qualities that the world considers virtues will lead a leader to ruin, while those regarded as vices will often bring safety and prosperity. Good leadership requires a prince to "know how to do evil.
Ross King
#6. His vices were the vices of his time and culture, but his virtues transcended the milieu of his life.
Orson Scott Card
#7. Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls.
Victor Hugo
#9. You may have noted the fact that it is a person's virtues as often as his vices that make him difficult to live with.
Kate Douglas Wiggin
#10. Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail.
Walter Lippmann
#11. We should be carefree with our bodies and prudish with our brains, not the contrary. How virtuous we are with our flesh, and yet the first foul thought that comes our way is invited to the depths of our soul.
Anthony Marais
#12. A writer's business is minding other people's business ... all the vices of the village gossip are the virtues of the writer.
Dawn Powell
#13. It is observed in the course of worldly things, that men's fortunes are oftener made by their tongues than by their virtues; and more men's fortunes overthrown thereby than by vices.
Walter Raleigh
#14. Affectation proceeds from one of these two causes,
vanity or hypocrisy; for as vanity puts us on affecting false characters, in order to purchase applause; so hypocrisy sets us on an endeavor to avoid censure, by concealing our vices under an appearance of their opposite virtues.
Henry Fielding
#15. We imply, and often believe, that habitual vices are exceptional single acts, and make the opposite mistake about our virtues - like the bad tennis player who calls his normal form his 'bad days' and mistakes his rare successes for his normal. I
C.S. Lewis
#16. It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
Abraham Lincoln
#17. The impression that you are a demigod worried me. I wanted to be like an ordinary human being with virtues and vices.
Nelson Mandela
#18. Party spirit enlists a man's virtues in the cause of his vices.
Richard Whately
#20. DIGESTION, n. The conversion of victuals into virtues. When the process is imperfect, vices are evolved instead - a circumstance from which that wicked writer, Dr. Jeremiah Blenn, infers that the ladies are the greater sufferers from dyspepsia.
Ambrose Bierce
#21. The vices enter into the composition of the virtues, as poisons into that of medicines. Prudence collects and arranges them, and uses them beneficially against the ills of life.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#22. Character is the sum of one's good habits (virtues) and bad habits (vices). These habits mark us and affect the ways in which we respond to life's events and challenges. Our character is our profile of habits and dispositions to act in certain ways.
Thomas Lickona
#23. We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
Henry Fielding
#24. Prayer is the key of perfection and of sovereign happiness; it is the efficacious means of getting rid of all vices and of acquiring all virtues; for the way to become perfect is to live in the presence of God.
Jeanne Marie Bouvier De La Motte Guyon
#25. one who possessed Beauty without Vanity,"' he said aloud to Barnabas. '"Strength without Insolence, / Courage without Ferocity, / And all the virtues of Man without his Vices.
Jan Karon
#26. So much of our lives is given over to the consideration of our imperfections that there is no time to improve our imaginary virtues. The truth is we only perfect our vices, and man is a worse creature when he dies than he was when he was born.
Edward Dahlberg
#27. What are your chief vices? And virtues? I have no vices. The concept doesn't exist in my vocabulary. My chief virtue is gratitude
Truman Capote
#28. Remember, the prince is like a mirror exposed to the eyes of all his subjects who continually look to him as a pattern on which to model themselves, and who in consequence without much trouble discover his vices and virtues.
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
#29. Beware of knowing your virtues; you may lose them. Beware of knowing your vices; you may forgive them.
James Richardson
#30. Nature evaluates a character on the basis of its merits, not demerits.
Raheel Farooq
#31. Unless we suppress our conscience, we naturally know basic moral truths. General virtues and vices, Thomas Reid wrote, "must appear self-evident to every man who has a conscience, and has taken the pains to exercise this natural power of his mind" ("Of Morals").
Anonymous
#32. Our virtues are voluntary (and in fact we are in a sense ourselves partly the cause of our moral dispositions, and it is our having a certain character that makes us set up an end of a certain kind), it follows that our vices are voluntary also; they are voluntary in the same manner as our virtues.
Aristotle.
#33. It is not the stars that make us, Dr. Butts, it is circumstance and necessita, the choices we make under pressure; our virtues make us, but virtues are not enough, we must deploy our vices at times. Or don't you agree?
Hilary Mantel
#34. It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster.
Rebecca West
#35. Men have discovered their distinctive virtues and vices through grappling with the perennial dilemmas and demands of love, courage, pride, family, and country-the five paths whose proper ordering gives us the key to the secret of happiness for a man.
Waller R Newell
#36. The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
Rene Descartes
#37. Yes, my particular virtue of being very often objective, and thus sidetracked from thinking about myself, suffers lapses of affirmation, as do all virtues and even all vices.
Fernando Pessoa
#39. It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.
Jonathan Swift
#40. All the vices are seasoned with pride just as the virtues are seasoned and enlivened by charity.
St. Catherine Of Siena
#41. New York, I thought, was a city defined by its flaws. In every possible way, its virtues were overwhelmed by its vices, as Jekyll was by Hyde. Yet it was these very vices that gave the city its character - like tar in an oak barrel lending its flavor to Scotch.
Miles Watson
#42. He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
Winston Churchill
#43. Nature, who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium, has sometimes need of vices and sometimes of virtues, inspires now this impulse, now that one, in accordance with what she requires.
Marquis De Sade
#44. A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.
Plutarch
#45. With ancient history writers most immediately in view, the author indicates tendency to look to the virtues and vices of individuals when seeking causes.
Peter Heather
#46. you assume the vices you have not, and conceal the virtues you possess." "My
Alexandre Dumas
#47. To each virtue there is an opposing vice; hence the wicked take vices for virtues.
Saint Nikodimos
#48. Moral vices prosper by dressing themselves as virtues.
Kenneth Minogue
#49. But though he had no striking vices, his virtues were perhaps almost as hard to define.
Susanna Clarke
#50. If we can spend more time uprooting vices and rooting virtues, our world will be safer and better.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
#51. 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
#52. So what the hell's wrong with me?" Nyx eased off the marble slab.
"Besides your deviant moral flexibility and severe phobia of emotional commitment?" Yahfia asked.
"I consider those virtues," Nyx said.
Kameron Hurley
#54. Money is a terrible blab; she will betray the secrets of her owner, whatever he do to gag her. His virtues will creep out in her whisper; his vices she will cry aloud at the top of her tongue.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#55. Love, like the cold bath, is never negative, it seldom leaves us where it finds us; if once we plunge into it, it will either heighten our virtues, or inflame our vices.
Charles Caleb Colton
#56. Our vices always lie in the direction of our virtues, and in their best estate are but plausible imitations of the latter.
Henry David Thoreau
#57. My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.
Abraham Lincoln
#58. Virtues are vices now, and death is the cost of love. Not the death of his body. His body was the lie. True death. The death of his humanity. The death of his soul.
Rick Yancey
#59. Features alone do not run in the blood; vices and virtues, genius and folly, are transmitted through the same sure but unseen channel.
William Hazlitt
#61. 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
#62. Our virtues make us; but virtues are not enough, we must deploy our vices at times.
Hilary Mantel
#63. You have been paying blackmail, not for your vices, but for your virtues.
Ayn Rand
#64. I have heard it said that women love men even for their vices," Anna began suddenly, "but I hate him for his virtues. I can't live with him. Do you understand?
Leo Tolstoy
#65. When we are sick our virtues and our vices are in abeyance.
Luc De Clapiers
#66. 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
#67. Some, by admiring other men's virtues, become enemies to their own vices.
Bias Of Priene
#68. 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
#69. 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
#71. He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
[On British Labour politician Stafford Cripps.]
Winston S. Churchill
#73. If we escape punishment for our vices, why should we complain if we are not rewarded for our virtues?
John Churton Collins
#74. 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
#75. Great parts produce great vices as well as virtues.
Plato
#76. The passions are the seeds of vices as well as of virtues, from which either may spring, accordingly as they are nurtured. Unhappy they who have never been taught the art to govern them!
Ann Radcliffe
#77. Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#78. Jews are a singular confusion - difficult to define, awkward to describe, impossible to understand. All the virtues, all the vices, every pleasure, every pain - nothing is spared them.
Israel Shenker
#79. We are more inclined to regret our virtues than our vices; but only the very honest will admit this.
Holbrook Jackson
#80. An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft.
Walter Bagehot
#81. For as health is but one thing, and has been always the same, whereas diseases are by thousands, besides new and daily additions, so all the virtues that have been ever in mankind are to be counted upon a few fingers, but his follies and vices are innumerable, and time adds hourly to the heap.
Jonathan Swift
#82. [On Las Vegas:] ... The City That Never Sleeps. The City That Sins and Smiles and Lives On the Edge. The city where vices become virtues, become what everyone is here to do.
Karen Kijewski
#83. People without any vices rarely have any virtues either.
Abraham Lincoln
#85. Of all the weaknesses that beset a man, vanity is the most deadly. For through vanity can a wise man turn to folly.
Raymond E. Feist
#86. I have known persons without a friend
never any one without some virtue. The virtues of the former conspired with their vices to make the whole world their enemies.
William Hazlitt
#87. Miracle focused messages propagates social vices instead of social virtues
Sunday Adelaja
#89. Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.
Alexander Pope
#90. Simple ignorance has in its time been complimented by the names of most of the vices, and of all the virtues.
Arthur Helps
#91. Princes rule the people, and their own passions rule Princes; but Providence can over-rule the whole, and draw the instruments of his inscrutable purposes from the vices, no less than the virtues of Kings.
Charles Caleb Colton
#92. The absence of vices adds so little to the sum of one's virtues.
Antonio Machado
#93. Conniving at your friends' vices, passing them over, being blind to them and deceived by them, even loving and admiring your friends' egregious faults as if they were virtues -- does not this seem pretty close to folly?
Erasmus
#94. Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#95. It is easier to get on with vices than with virtues. The vices, accommodating by nature, help each other, are full of mutual indulgence, whereas the jealous virtues combat and annihilate each other, showing in everything their incompatibility and their intolerence
Emil Cioran
#96. We ought to be interested in that darkest and most real part of a man in which dwell not the vices that he does not display, but the virtues that he cannot.
G.K. Chesterton
#98. Stimulate the heart to love and the mind to be early accurate, and all other virtues will rise of their own accord, and all vices will be thrown out.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#99. Locked in a debate over Israel's alleged vices, they miss the salient truth running through the long history of anti-Semitism: Israel is hated above all for its virtues.
George Gilder
#100. People always brag about their vices; it is when they begin to brag about their virtues that they become insufferable.
G.K. Chesterton
