Vice Quotes

...But even then you have to reckon with a criminal's chief vice.''What is that?'' Conceit. A crimin...

the evil that is in this world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as...

The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.

You [demagogues] are like the fishers for eels; in still waters they catch nothing, but if they thor...

People hate to see their vices depicted, but vice is terrible and it should be depicted.

If this is vise I want no virtue....I know what happiness is possible to me on earth. And my happine...

It is a great misfortune to be of use to nobody scarcely less to be of use to everybody.

What maintains one vice would bring up two children.

To be proud of virtue, is to poison yourself with the Antidote.

No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.

So if the players trust the coach, it's not a problem. If the players don't trust the coach, it is a...

One big vice in a man is apt to keep out a great many smaller ones.

Every vice leads to cruelty. Even a good emotion, pity, if not controlled by charity and justice, le...

To be wicked is never excusable, but there is some merit in knowing that you are; the most irreparab...

He spoke in hard and angry earnest, if a man ever did," replied the girl, shaking her head. "He is a...

The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food.

I struggled for 15 years in this business before Miami Vice came along.

There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as 'moral indignation,' wh...

All pleasure is a vice because seeking pleasure is what everyone does in life, and the worst vice of...

Vice goes a long way tow'rd makin' life bearable. A little vice now an' thin is relished by th' best...

Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.

Hypocrisy is a tribute that vice pays to virtue.

Christianity gave Eros poison to drink; he did not die of it, certainly, but degenerated to Vice.

Here all great emotions decay: here only little, dry emotions may rattle!Do you not smell already th...

When misguided public opinion honors what is despicable and despises what is honorable, punishes vir...

We priests are sneered at and always shall be—the accusation is such an easy one—as deeply envious, ...

Religion is a means of exploitation employed by the strong against the weak; religion is a cloak of ...

How often the priest had heard the same confession--Man was so limited: he hadn't even the ingenuity...

Nevertheless man has found love, which is not a bad reply to that sly Deity, and he has adorned it w...

Twas doing nothing was his curse. Is there a vice can plague us worse?

I did not intend making a philippic against covetousness, a sin to which I believe no one here is ad...

As far as the Jews were concerned, the transformation of the "crime" of Judaism into the fashionable...

Virtue will cut your head off, vice will only cut your hair.

Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats neither fear nor shame can cure them.

Samuel understood at last why this being hated men and women so much: he hated them because they wer...

I'll habits gather by unseen degrees As brooks make rivers rivers run to seas.

Many without punishment none without sin.

There is not a crime, there is not a dodge, there is not a trick, there is not a swindle, there is n...

Virtue, should there be anyone who still ignores the fact, always finds pitfalls on the extremely di...

If individuals have no virtues their vices may be of use to us.

It is irrelevant to the entrepreneur, as the servant of the consumers, whether the wishes and wants ...

Since its appearance the view that prostitution is a product of capitalism has gained ground enormou...

Nonetheless, many people, and especially intellectuals, passionately loathe capitalism. As they see ...

Whenever the balance of power was unequal, there was a driver and a driven. Power was the lethal vic...

I haven't a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming petty vices whatsoever.

In order to know virtue, we must acquaint ourselves with vice. Only then can we know the true measur...

Believe me, Eugenie, the words "vice" and "virtue" supply us only with local meanings. There is no a...

Ambrosio was yet to learn, that to an heart unacquainted with her, Vice is ever most dangerous when ...

When I religiously confess myself to myself I find that the best virtue I have has in it some tinct...

Is it that we pretend to a reformation? Truly, no: but it may be we are more addicted to Venus than ...

It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable grounds.

It's true Heaven forbids some pleasures but a compromise can usually be found.

My hate is general, I detest all men;Some because they are wicked and do evil,Others because they to...

Part of the problem about authenticity is that virtues aren't the only things that are habit forming...

That's not what I'm asking. I'm asking, what's your vice and what brand of trouble does it lead to?

To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.

Be informed, also, that this good and savoury Parish is the home of Hectors, Trapanners, Biters who ...

When I was a young man and very well thought of,I couldn't ask aught that the ladies denied.I nibble...

Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.

Our faith comes in moments our vice is habitual.

The virtues are economists, but some of the vices are also...Pride is handsome, economical; pride er...

History, as taught by schools, has white washed the drunkenness out of the past. It has minimized th...

It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable grounds.

It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable grounds.

It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable grounds.

It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable grounds.

It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable grounds.

It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable grounds.

It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable grounds.

...[I]f at the time of its release the soul is tainted and impure, because it has always associated ...

Certainly the most destructive vice if you like, that a person can have. More than pride, which is s...

What a pity it is that we have no amusements in England but vice and religion!

What a pity it is that we have no amusements in England but vice and religion!

What a difference! Under the esthetic sky, everything is buoyant, beautiful, transient! when ethics ...

Here's a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once.

Even if someone does something that brings bad to you,do something good for them and make them feel ...

The vices we scoff at in others laugh at us within ourselves.

The superior power of population cannot be checked without producing misery or vice.

Nurse one vice in your bosom. Give it the attention it deserves and let your virtues spring up modes...

Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners - your lecherous liars ...

The quasi-peaceable gentleman of leisure, then, not only consumes of the staff of life beyond the mi...

The ceremonial differentiation of the dietary is best seen in the use of intoxicating beverages and ...

What are your chief vices? And virtues? I have no vices. The concept doesn't exist in my vocabulary....

A monk should surely love his books with humility, wishing their good and not the glory of his own c...

The monkish vows keep us far from that sink of vice that is the female body, but often they bring us...

Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.

Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want.

In the present day, when popular literature is running into the low levels of life, and luxuriating ...

But in these modern times it may be decidedly asserted as a fact, that vice, in accomplishing the va...

Of all the vices which degrade the human character, Selfishness is the most odious and contemptible....

The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice c...

Accentuated plainness and accentuated vice ought to bring about harmony. Beauty lies in harmony, in ...

In Paris, everything's for sale: wise virgins, foolish virgins, truth and lies, tears and smiles.