Vices Quotes
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As witnesses not of our intentions but of our conduct, we can be true or false, and the hypocrite's crime is that he bears false witness against himself. What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one. Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.
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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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Neither our vices nor our virtues further the poem.
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You can change your faith without changing gods, and vice versa.
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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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Some, by admiring other men's virtues, become enemies to their own vices.
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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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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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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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The confidant of my vices is my master, though he were my valet.
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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 vices are never so well employed as in combating one another.
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Those vices luxury and neglect of decent manners are vices of men, not of the times.
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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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Perhaps the cruelest thing ever said of Hubert Humphrey was that he had the soul of a vice president.
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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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Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness.
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Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit--or a mask.
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Avoid sloth, the mother of all vices!
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They will endure. They are better than we are. Stronger than we are. Their vices are vices aped from white men or that white men and bondage have taught them: improvidence and intemperance and evasion-not laziness: evasion: of what white men had set them to, not for their aggrandizement or even comfort but his own.
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All the vices, Sancho, bring some kind of pleasure with them; but envy brings nothing but irritation, bitterness, and rage.
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Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it.
