Vices Quotes
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Hostility to youth is the worst vice of the middle-aged.
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The Americans as a nation are killing themselves with their vices and high living. As much as a man ought to eat in half an hour they swallow in three minutes gulping down their food like the dog under the table which when a chunk of meat is thrown down to it swallows it before you can say 'twice.' If you want a reform carry out the advice I have just given you. Dispense with your multitudinous dishes, and, depend upon it, you will do much towards preserving your families from sickness, disease and death.
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We pardon familiar vices.
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Luis Figo is totally different to David Beckham, and vice versa.
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Some vices only lay hold of us by means of others, and these, like branches, fall on removal of the trunk.
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The characteristic virtue of Englishmen is power of sustained practical activity and their characteristic vice a reluctance to test the quality of that activity by reference to principles.
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The vices come as passengers, visit us as guest and stay as masters.
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For in the fatness of these pursy times Virtue itself of vice must pardon beg.
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Our society is not perfect and this will come as no surprise to many of you. But liberty, you see, that precious child of our liberal democracy only two hundred years old, has one notable side effect. When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice. In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system.
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Nine-tenths of our measures for preventing vice are really protective towards it, because they ward off the penalty.
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If someone speaks badly of you, do not defend yourself against the accusations, but reply; "you obviously don't know about my other vices, otherwise you would have mentioned these as well.
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Cruelty to animals is one of the most significant vices of a low and ignoble people.
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People do not persist in their vices because they are not weary of them, but because they cannot leave them off. It is the nature of vice to leave us no resource but in itself.
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Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher
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The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.
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Vices of the time; vices of the man.
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If vices were profitable, the virtuous man would be the sinner.
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There is no vice so simple but assumes some mark of virtue on his outward parts.
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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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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.
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The vices are never so well employed as in combating one another.
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Cowardice was undoubtedly one of the most terrible vices - thus spoke Yeshua Ha-Nozri. 'No, philosopher, I disagree with you: it is the most terrible vice!
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Shorty, let me tell you about my only vice: It has to do with lots of lovin', and it ain't nuttin' nice.
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Hindsight is the historian's necessary vice.
