Vice Quotes
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When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice.
Barbara Amiel
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Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it.
Confucius
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What is still more to our shame as civilized Christians, we debauch their morals already too prone to vice, and we introduce among them wants and perhaps disease which they never before knew and which serve only to disturb that happy tranquility which they and their forefathers enjoyed. If anyone denies the truth of this assertion, let him tell me what the natives of the whole extent of America have gained by the commerce they have had with Europeans.
James Cook
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In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa.
Samuel Butler
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Cheney refers to his vice presidency... as one of the most consequential vice presidencies in American history. And it clearly was.
R. J. Cutler
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Honoured sir, poverty is not a vice, that's a true saying. Yet I know too that drunkeness is not a virtue, and that's even truer. But beggary, honoured sir, beggary is a vice. In poverty you may still retain your innate nobility of soul, but in beggary--never--no one. For beggary a man is not chased out of human society with a stick, he is swept out with a broom, so as to make it as humiliating as possible; and quite right, too, forasmuch as in beggary as I am ready to be the first to humiliate myself.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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I don't doubt a number of those ballots, of those votes that were cast for me, probably were intended for Vice President Gore.
Pat Buchanan
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He hadn’t a single redeeming vice.
Oscar Wilde
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There is something deeply attractive, at least to quite a lot of people, about squalor, misery and vice. They are regarded as more authentic, and certainly more exciting, than cleanliness, happiness, and virtue.
Anthony Malcolm Daniels
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I am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice.
Samuel Johnson
