Vices Quotes
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Vices of the time; vices of the man.
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As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt.
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There is no vice so simple but assumes some mark of virtue on his outward parts.
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You know, my role as Vice Chairman is a lot less tiring than playing matches every three days.
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The confidant of my vices is my master, though he were my valet.
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You can change your faith without changing gods, and vice versa.
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Some, by admiring other men's virtues, become enemies to their own vices.
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Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.
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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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As we think of power in the 21st century, we want to get away from the idea that power’s always zero sum — my gain is your loss and vice versa. Power can also be positive sum, where your gain can be my gain.
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Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness.
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Those vices luxury and neglect of decent manners are vices of men, not of the times.
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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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Near this spot are deposited the remains of one who possessed beauty without vanity, strength without insolence, courage without ferocity, and all the virtues of man, without his vices. This praise, which would be unmeaning flattery if inscribed over human ashes, is but a just tribute to the memory of Botswain, a dog.
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A lot of vices that I've had over the years were always to make up for some sort of character deficiency, one of them being shyness.
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What were once vices are the fashion of the day.
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The vices are never so well employed as in combating one another.
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Ah, Miss Harriet, it would do us no harm to remember oftener than we do, that vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!
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Perhaps the cruelest thing ever said of Hubert Humphrey was that he had the soul of a vice president.
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Avoid sloth, the mother of all vices!
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Self-consciousness, that's what it is. Always my abiding vice. I keep seeing myself. Me watching myself watching others watch me. How do you lose that? What's the trick?
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California has all the beauties of youth as well as its idiocies and vices.
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There are vices which have no hold upon us, but in connection with others; and which, when you cut down the trunk, fall like the branches.
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Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it.
