Vice Quotes
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Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each New Year find you a better man. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable. (Quote by - Voltaire)
Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today. (Quote by - Aristophanes)
One big vice in a man is apt to keep out a great many smaller ones. (Quote by - Bret Harte)
How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them. (Quote by - Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
Vices are often habits rather than passions. (Quote by - Antoine Rivarol)
Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome. (Quote by - Angela Carter)
Good taste is the worst vice ever invented. (Quote by - Dame Edith Sitwell)
Some vices only lay hold of us by means of others, and these, like branches, fall on removal of the trunk. (Quote by - Blaise Pascal)
Every vice makes its guilt the more conspicuous in proportion to the rank of the offender. (Quote by - Juvenal)
The Anglo-Saxon conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't; it just keeps you from enjoying it. (Quote by - Salvador de Madariaga)
Too much work and too much energy kill a man just as effectively as too much assorted vice or too much drink. (Quote by - Rudyard Kipling)
Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners - your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards - who dishonor the vices and bring them into bad repute. (Quote by - Thornton Wilder)
Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life -- and if Virtue is not its own reward I don't know any other stipend annexed to it. (Quote by - Lord Byron)
Vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness. (Quote by - Edmund Burke)
Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it. (Quote by - Finley Peter Dunne)
Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue. (Quote by - Barry Goldwater)
Ambition, in a private man is a vice, Is in a prince the virtue. (Quote by - Philip Massinger)
Vices are their own punishment. (Quote by - Aesop)
Vice has more martyrs than virtue; and it often happens that men suffer more to be lost than to be saved. (Quote by - Charles Caleb Colton)
Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps. (Quote by - Quentin Crisp)
Vice stirs up war, virtue fights. (Quote by - Marquis De Vauvenargues)
The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food. (Quote by - Cyril Connolly)
Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up. (Quote by - Mary Astell)
Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher. (Quote by - Seneca)
The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by wine. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
If he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, Sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
My only aversion to vice, is the price. (Quote by - Victor Buono)
By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt. (Quote by - James Madison)
Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. (Quote by - Francis Bacon)
There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion. (Quote by - William Hazlitt)
Religion is a means of exploitation employed by the strong against the weak; religion is a cloak of ambition, injustice and vice. (Quote by - Georges Bizet)
Our virtues and vices couple with one another, and get children that resemble both their parents. (Quote by - George Savile)
Pride is said to be the last vice the good man gets clear of. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
Vice, in its true light, is so deformed, that it shocks us at first sight; and would hardly ever seduce us, if it did not at first wear the mask of some virtue. (Quote by - Lord Chesterfield)
In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice. (Quote by - Marquis de Sade)
Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As to be hated need but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
More people are flattered into virtue than bullied out of vice. (Quote by - R S Surtees)
No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa. (Quote by - Eugene Ionesco)
I won vice president of my student body in high school. That doesn't mean anything. (Quote by - Al Sharpton)
There is a ceaseless war against drunkenness and cruelty and vice. (Quote by - Anthony Blunt)
The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures. (Quote by - Joseph Addison)
And last the Vice and Follies of the Age. (Quote by - Mrs. Susannah Centlivre)
Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime. (Quote by - Will Durant)
He who hates vice hates men. (Quote by - John Morley)
Vice gets more in this vicious world Than piety. (Quote by - Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher)
Every life is march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice. (Quote by - Lyman Abbott)
When I'm in New York my boyfriend buys me sneakers and vice versa. (Quote by - Lily Allen)
Self-love is not opposed to the love of other people. You cannot really love yourself and do yourself a favour without doing people a favour, and vice versa. (Quote by - Karl Menninger)
Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues. (Quote by - Franz Kafka)
Without enthusiasm, virtue functions not at all, and vice only poorly. (Quote by - Mignon McLaughlin)
Drastic measures is Latin for a whopping. (Quote by - F Anstey)
The more prohibitions you have, the less virtuous people will be. Try to make people moral, and you lay the groundwork for vice. (Quote by - Lao Tzu)
It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable grounds. (Quote by - Samuel Butler)
Oftentimes we love the thing we hate and vice versa. (Quote by - Andres Serrano)
There is more than a morsel of truth in the saying, "He who hates vice hates mankind." (Quote by - W. MacNeile Dixon)
Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies. (Quote by - Michel de Montaigne)
Hypocrisy is the homage which vice renders to virtue. (Quote by - Duc De La Rochefoucauld)
We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke straps our vice. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
Under the leadership of President Bush and Vice President Cheney, the United States has given up the moral high ground that we used to occupy as an international leader. (Quote by - Marty Meehan)
Ambition is not a vice of little people. (Quote by - Montaigne)
Vice president - it has such a nice ring to it! (Quote by - Geraldine Ferraro)
Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderated use rather than total abstinence. (Quote by - Samuel Butler)
Men wish to be saved from the mischiefs of their vices, but not from their vices. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment. (Quote by - Ben Jonson)
A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained. (Quote by - Lyman Abbott)
To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery. (Quote by - Ouida)
We are more inclined to regret our virtues than our vices; but only the very honest will admit this. (Quote by - Holbrook Jackson)
Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
What maintains one vice would bring up two children. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
The addictive semiconscious vice of biblioscopy-having to see what the other person is reading, usually on a train peering over shoulders, bending down to. (Quote by - Nigel Andrew)
A vice is a failure of desire. (Quote by - Gerald Stanley Lee)
People don't vote for vice president, they vote for president. (Quote by - Susan Estrich)
To all the rest of his Absurdities, (for vice is always unreasonable,) he adds one more, who expects that Vertue from another which he won't practise himself. (Quote by - Mary Astell)
The vices we scoff at in others, laugh at us within ourselves. (Quote by - Thomas Browne)
It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations. (Quote by - Walter Bagehot)
The vices of the rich and great are mistaken for error; and those of the poor and lowly, for crimes. (Quote by - Lady Marguerite Blessington)
Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it. (Quote by - Confucius)
If we escape punishment for our vices, why should we complain if we are not rewarded for our virtues? (Quote by - John Churton Collins)
O, what a mansion have those vices got Which for their habitation chose out thee, Where beauty's veil doth cover every blot And all things turns to fair that eyes can see! (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues. (Quote by - Elizabeth Taylor)
Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity. (Quote by - George Eliot)
The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to plague us. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Democracy means that anyone can grow up to be president, and anyone who doesn't grow up can be vice president. (Quote by - Johnny Carson)
Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast; But shall the dignity of vice be lost? (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue. (Quote by - Hosea Ballou)
If he really thinks there is no distinction between vice and virtue, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
Pornography was the great vice of the Seventies; plutography - the graphic depiction of the acts of the rich - the the great vice of the Eighties. (Quote by - Tom Wolfe)
In a network situation, a vice president, while he's shaving, can decide your history. (Quote by - Phil Donahue)
A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues. (Quote by - Plutarch)
Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
I was never Vice Chair of the Troops Out Movement. (Quote by - Peter Hain)
What's vice today may be virtue, tomorrow. (Quote by - Henry Fielding)
Saint Augustine! well hast thou said, That of our vices we can frame A ladder, if we will but tread Beneath our feet each deed of shame. (Quote by - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Search others for their virtues, thy self for thy vices. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
Vice knows that she is ugly, so she puts on her mask. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
Vices of the time; vices of the man. (Quote by - Francis Bacon)
There is no vice so simple but assumes Some mark of virtue on his outward parts. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman. (Quote by - Edwin Hubbel Chapin)
Food is my thing, I do not smoke or drink, so food is my vice. (Quote by - Kathy Griffin)
Ignorance is the primary source of all misery and vice. (Quote by - Victor Cousin)
When I religiously confess myself to myself, I find that the best virtue I have has in it some tincture of vice. (Quote by - Michel de Montaigne)
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues. (Quote by - Bertrand Arthur William Russell)
To sanction Vice, and hunt Decorum down. (Quote by - Lord Byron)
The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds. (Quote by - Samuel Butler)
Men imagine that they communicate their virtue or vice only by overt actions, and do not see that virtue or vice emit a breath every moment. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Everybody knows they're on the Obama team: There isn't vice presidential vs. presidential division, there's not a generational pull. People have internalized that this is a real moment in history. (Quote by - Rahm Emanuel)
Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic. (Quote by - Bertrand Russell)
I find that the best virtue I have has in it some tincture of vice. (Quote by - Montaigne)
I would remind you that extremism in the defence of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue!. (Quote by - Barry Goldwater)
When our vices desert us, we flatter ourselves that we are deserting our vices. (Quote by - Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld)
This is the great vice of academicism, that it is concerned with ideas rather than with thinking. (Quote by - Lionel Trilling)
I felt as though I was driving in a tunnel. The whole circuit became a tunnel... I had reached such a high level of concentration that it was as if the car and I had become one. Together we were at the maximum. I was giving the car everything - and vice versa. (Quote by - Ayrton Senna)
Wild oats make a bad autumn crop. (Quote by - Cynic's Calendar)
A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doing what is right and complying with what is wrong. (Quote by - Horace)
I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores. (Quote by - Moliere)
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. (Quote by - Abraham Lincoln)
There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue. (Quote by - Oliver Goldsmith)
Vice can be learnt, even without a teacher. (Quote by - Seneca)
We do not despise all those who have vices, but we despise all those who have not a single virtue. (Quote by - Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld)
The willing contemplation of vice is vice. (Quote by - Arabian Proverb)
The heart resolves this matter in a trice, "Men only feel the smart, but not the vice." (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess! (Quote by - Charles Dickens)
There will be vice as long as there are men. (Quote by - Tacitus)
You can know a person by the kind of desk he keeps. If the president of a company has a clean desk then it must be the executive vice president who is doing all the work. (Quote by - Harold Geneen)
Nurse one vice in your bosom. Give it the attention it deserves and let your virtues spring p modestly around it. Then you'll have the miser who's no liar; and the drunkard who's the benefactor of the whole city. (Quote by - Thornton Wilder)
Vice goes a long way tow'rd makin' life bearable. A little vice now an' thin is relished by th' best iv men. (Quote by - Finley Peter Dunne)
Every vice has its excuse ready. (Quote by - Publilius Syrus)
For a solitary animal egoism is a virtue that tends to preserve and improve the species: in any kind of community it becomes a destructive vice. (Quote by - Erwin Schrodinger)
Many without punishment, none without sin. (Quote by - John Ray)
A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues. (Quote by - Theodore Roosevelt)
If you don't want anyone to know it, don't do it. (Quote by - Chinese Proverb)
Christianity gave Eros poison to drink; he did not die of it but degenerated into vice. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)
Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa. (Quote by - Casey Stengel)
By vulgarity I mean that vice of civilization which makes man ashamed of himself and his next of kin, and pretend to be somebody else. (Quote by - Solomon Schechter)
We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates. (Quote by - Denis Diderot)
Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself. (Quote by - Henry Ward Beecher)
Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair. (Quote by - Ira Gershwin)
Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need. (Quote by - Voltaire)
Discipline is wisdom and vice versa. (Quote by - M. Scott Peck)
Flippancy, the most hopeless form of intellectual vice. (Quote by - George Gissing)
There are two types of people in this world, good and bad. The good sleep better, but the bad seem to enjoy the waking hours much more. (Quote by - Woody Allen)
What were once vices are the fashion of the day. (Quote by - Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice. (Quote by - Lyman Abbott)
A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice. (Quote by - Thomas Paine)
Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice. (Quote by - Eleanor Roosevelt)
The characteristic virtue of Englishmen is power of sustained practical activity and their characteristic vice a reluctance to test the quality of that activity by reference to principles. (Quote by - R H Tawney)
Stories now, to suit a public taste, must be half epigram, half pleasant vice. (Quote by - James Russell Lowell)
Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination. (Quote by - Daniel Defoe)
Fast cars are my only vice. (Quote by - Michael Bay)
I cannot love anyone if I hate myself. That is the reason why we feel so extremely uncomfortable in the presence of people who are noted for their special virtuousness, for they radiate an atmosphere of the torture they inflict on themselves. That is not a virtue but a vice. (Quote by - Carl Gustav Jung)
Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues. (Quote by - Quintilian)
Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)
This is the essential evil of vice, that it debases man. (Quote by - Edwin Hubbel Chapin)
It is false to say that you are a vicious man, Zoilus; you are not a vicious man, you are vice itself. (Quote by - Marcus Aurelius)
Who has a book of all that monarchs do, He's more secure to keep it shut than shown; For vice repeated is like the wand'ring wind, Blows dust in others' eye, to spread itself; And yet the end of all is bought thus dear, The breath is gone, and the sore eyes see clear To stop the air would hurt them. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Each is under the most sacred obligation not to squander the material committed to him, not to sap his strength in folly and vice, and to see at the least that he delivers a product worthy the labor and cost which have been expended on him. (Quote by - Anna Julia Cooper)
To make judgements about great and lofty things, a soul of the same stature is needed; otherwise we ascribe to them that vice which is our own. (Quote by - Montaigne)
Loud indignation against vice often stands for virtue in the eyes of bigots. (Quote by - J. Petit-Senn)
The worst vice of a fanatic is his sincerity. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
If vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established. (Quote by - Algernon Sidney)
Ill habits gather by unseen degrees,As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas. (Quote by - John Dryden)
No vice is so bad as advice. (Quote by - Marie Dressler)
Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice. (Quote by - Thomas Paine)
It is but a step from companionship to slavery when one associates with vice. (Quote by - Hosea Ballou)
Some loves are like a vice that has ceased to give pleasure. (Quote by - Mason Cooley)
Let them show me a cottage where there are not the same vices of which they accuse the courts. (Quote by - Lord Chesterfield)
Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice. (Quote by - Abu Bakr)
Vice deceives us when dressed in the garb of virtue. (Quote by - Juvenal)
In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa. (Quote by - Samuel Butler)
There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa. (Quote by - William Makepeace Thackeray)
He's put on weight and I've lost it, and vice versa. (Quote by - Ronnie Whelan)
If individuals have no virtues, their vices may be of use to us. (Quote by - Junius)
Minor vices lead to major ones, but minor virtues stay put. (Quote by - Mignon McLaughlin)
In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice. (Quote by - Evelyn Waugh)
The disgrace of others often keeps tender minds from vice. (Quote by - Horace)
Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need. (Quote by - Voltaire)
Ne'er blush'd, unless, in spreading vice's snares, She blunder'd on some virtue unawares. (Quote by - Charles Churchill)
Dali is like a man who hesitates between talent and genius, or, as one might once have said, between vice and virtue. (Quote by - Andre Breton)
I have not a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming vices. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
