Vices Quotes
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The vices are never so well employed as in combating one another.
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Maybe it’s that I find it hard to forgive the follies and vices of others, or their offenses against me. My good opinion, once lost, is lost forever.
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Men have their virtues and their vices, their heroisms and their perversities; men are neither wholly good nor wholly bad, but possess and practice all that there is of good and bad here below. Such is the general rule. Temperament, education, the accidents of life, are modifying factors. Outside of this, everything is ordered arrangement, everything is chance. Such has been my rule of expectation and it has usually brought me success.
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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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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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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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Vice, like disease, floats in the atmosphere.
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Those vices luxury and neglect of decent manners are vices of men, not of the times.
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The confidant of my vices is my master, though he were my valet.
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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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Neither our vices nor our virtues further the poem.
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Some, by admiring other men's virtues, become enemies to their own vices.
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You can change your faith without changing gods, and vice versa.
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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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All the vices, Sancho, bring some kind of pleasure with them; but envy brings nothing but irritation, bitterness, and rage.
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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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Vice is contagious, and there is no trusting the sound and the sick together.
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Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness.
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Drunkenness doesn't create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
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What were once vices are the fashion of the day.
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California has all the beauties of youth as well as its idiocies and 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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Your commander would never lie to you. That's the vice president's job.
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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!
