Vice Quotes
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I don't define anything I eat as a vice.
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So for a good old-gentlemanly vice, I think I must take up with avarice.
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That roguish and cheerful vice, politeness.
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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.
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Virtue is voluntary, vice involuntary.
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If I have one vice and I can call it nothing else it is not able to say 'no'.
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What is more harmful than any vice? Practical sympathy and pity for all the failures and all the weak : Christianity.
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Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.
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A thirst for gold, The beggar's vice, which can but overwhelm The meanest hearts.
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A man given to vice is always an idealist.
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In arriving at the relevant theory about the specifics of our faculty of vision we will presumably use our eyes to gather relevant data. Based on such data we come to know about the optic nerve, the structure of our eyes, the rods and cones, etc., so as to explain how it is that vision gives us reliable access to the shapes and colors of objects around us. In reliably arriving at that theory we thus exercise the very faculty whose reliability is explained by the theory. There is no vice in this sort of circularity.
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The vice lies not in entering the bordello but in not coming out.
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[In China at that time:] The penalty for adultery is death by strangulation. Mai-da's mother has added the following note to this section; 'Adultery is a feminine vice. Copulation on the man's part is not his wife's concern, unless he sires a child. Then she must accept the child as one of his homestead.
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Change a virtue in its circumstances find it becomes a vice; change a vice in its circumstances, and it becomes a virtue. Regard the same quality from two sides; on one it is a fault, on the other a merit. The essential of a man is found concealed far below these moral badges.
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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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A rent in your clothes is a mishap, a stain on them is a vice.
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Mutual forgiveness of each vice. Such are the Gates of Paradise.
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This vice brings in one hundred million francs in taxes every year. I will certainly forbid it at once - as soon as you can name a virtue that brings in as much revenue.
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There is neither vice nor virtue, there are only circumstances.
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That low vice, curiosity!
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One vice worn out makes us wiser than fifty tutors.
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I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
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Vice may triumph for a time, crime may flaunt its victories in the face of honest toilers, but in the end the law will follow the wrong-doer to a bitter fate, and dishonor and punishment will be the portion of those who sin.
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Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman.
