Vices Quotes
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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)
All institutions are prone to corruption and to the vices of their members. (Quote by - Morris West)
Although all the good arts serve to draw man's mind away from vices and lead it toward better things, this function can be more fully performed by this art, which also provides extraordinary intellectual pleasure. (Quote by - Nicolaus Copernicus)
An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft. (Quote by - Walter Bagehot)
As the most extravagant errors were received among the established articles of their faith, so the most infamous vices obtained in their practice, and were indulged not only with impunity, but authorized by the sanction of their laws. (Quote by - David Brainerd)
As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt. (Quote by - Moliere)
Basically, I'm for anything that gets you through the night - be it prayer, tranquilizers or a bottle of Jack Daniels. (Quote by - Frank Sinatra)
Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
Beware of the man who does not drink. (Quote by - Proverb)
Coercion may prevent many transgressions; but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom may lead to many transgressions, but it lends even to vices a less ignoble form. (Quote by - Wilhelm von Humboldt)
Crimes sometimes shock us too much; vices almost always too little. (Quote by - Augustus Hare)
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism. (Quote by - Carl Gustav Jung)
Every vice has its excuse ready. (Quote by - Publilius Syrus)
Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Evil borders upon good, and vices are confounded with virtues; as the report of good qualities is delightful to a well-disposed mind, so the relation of the contrary should not be offensive. (Quote by - Giraldus Cambrensis)
Folks who have no vices have plaguey few virtues. (Quote by - Abraham Lincoln)
For me, I go in and play a few Christian songs for an audience, and now I have people come up and not tell me I'm great, but tell me that my music is helping save their lives, helping them in the Lord, and helping them end their vices. (Quote by - Rick Derringer)
Girl, you ain't much fun since I stopped drinking. (Quote by - Toby Keith)
Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay. (Quote by - Percy Bysshe Shelley)
Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence. (Quote by - Samuel Butler)
Hate no one; hate their vices, not themselves. (Quote by - J G C Brainard)
Have not prisons - which kill all will and force of character in man, which enclose within their walls more vices than are met with on any other spot of the globe - always been universities of crime? (Quote by - Peter Kropotkin)
He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire. (Quote by - Winston Churchill)
He who busies himself with things other than improvement of his own self becomes perplexed in darkness and entangled in ruin. His evil spirits immerse him deep in vices and make his bad actions seem handsome. (Quote by - Ali ibn Abi Talib)
He who hates vice hates men. (Quote by - John Morley)
Here's a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once. (Quote by - Tallulah Bankhead)
His was the sort of career that made the Recording Angel think seriously about taking up shorthand. (Quote by - Nicolas Bentley)
How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them. (Quote by - Samuel Taylor Coleridge )
I don't drink anymore... I freeze it and eat it like a popsicle. (Quote by - Dean Martin)
I don't need to drink to have a good time, I need to drink to stop the voices in my head. (Quote by - Dave Attel)
I have not a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming vices. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me. (Quote by - Winston Churchill)
I read about the evils of drinking, so i gave up reading. (Quote by - Henny Youngman)
I was so happy when they cast me in Chocolat, because it's one of my vices. (Quote by - Juliette Binoche)
If the headache would only preceed the intoxication alcoholism would be a virtue. (Quote by - Samuel Butler)
If we escape punishment for our vices, why should we complain if we are not rewarded for our virtues? (Quote by - John Churton Collins)
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. (Quote by - Abraham Lincoln)
It is a great thing to know our vices. (Quote by - Cicero)
It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster. (Quote by - Rebecca West)
It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations. (Quote by - Walter Bagehot)
Let them show me a cottage where there are not the same vices of which they accuse the courts. (Quote by - Lord Chesterfield)
Loud indignation against vice often stands for virtue in the eyes of bigots. (Quote by - J. Petit-Senn)
Man's natural character is to imitate; that of the sensitive man is to resemble as closely as possible the person whom he loves. It is only by imitating the vices of others that I have earned my misfortunes. (Quote by - Marquis de Sade)
Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues. (Quote by - Napoleon Bonaparte)
Minor vices lead to major ones, but minor virtues stay put. (Quote by - Mignon McLaughlin)
Most of the vices and mortal sins condemned today correspond to inclinations that were purely adaptive or at least harmless in primitive man. (Quote by - Konrad Lorenz)
Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being. (Quote by - Francois de La Rochefoucauld)
Nature, who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium, has sometimes need of vices and sometimes of virtues, inspires now this impulse, now that one, in accordance with what she requires. (Quote by - Marquis de Sade)
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)
No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health. (Quote by - Charles Caleb Colton)
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues. (Quote by - Bertrand Arthur William Russell)
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy. (Quote by - Seneca)
Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness. (Quote by - Walter Scott)
One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real. (Quote by - Klaus Kinski)
Our virtues and vices couple with one another, and get children that resemble both their parents. (Quote by - George Savile)
Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised. (Quote by - Juvenal)
Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised. (Quote by - Francois de La Rochefoucauld)
Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures. (Quote by - Theodore Roosevelt)
Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices. (Quote by - R. Buckminster Fuller)
Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities. (Quote by - Charles Bukowski)
So much of our lives is given over to the consideration of our imperfections that there is no time to improve our imaginary virtues. The truth is we only perfect our vices, and man is a worse creature when he dies than he was when he was born. (Quote by - Edward Dahlberg)
The accumulation of numbers always augments in some measure moral corruptions, and the consequences to health of the various vices incident thereto, are well known. (Quote by - William Falconer)
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)
The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds. (Quote by - Samuel Butler)
The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to plague us. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues. (Quote by - Rene Descartes)
The name and pretense of virtue is as serviceable to self-interest as are real vices. (Quote by - Francois de La Rochefoucauld)
The passions of the young are vices in the old. (Quote by - Joseph Joubert)
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)
The problem with this world is, everyone in it is 3 drinks behind. (Quote by - Humphrey Bogart)
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)
The virtue of some people consists wholly in condemning the vices in others. (Quote by - Herbert Samual)
The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest. (Quote by - Francois de La Rochefoucauld)
The well of nature is full today. Time to go outside and take a drink. (Quote by - Diane Ackerman)
The word of God is full of sad and grave counsel, full of the knowledge of God, of examples of virtues, and of correction of vices, of the end of this life, and of the life to come. (Quote by - John Jewel)
The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices. (Quote by - Francois de La Rochefoucauld)
There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices. (Quote by - Francois de La Rochefoucauld)
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)
There have been times in my life that I've had a ton of vices, and my demons have run amok for years and years and years. (Quote by - Ron White)
Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it. (Quote by - Confucius)
Through tattered clothes, small vices do appear. Robes and furred gowns hide all. (Quote by - Merle Shain)
To a philosophic eye, the vices of the clergy are far less dangerous than their virtues. (Quote by - Edward Gibbon)
Tobacco and alcohol, delicious fathers of abiding friendships and fertile reveries. (Quote by - Luis Bunuel)
Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail. (Quote by - Walter Lippmann)
Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it. (Quote by - Finley Peter Dunne)
Vice is such a hideous creature, that the more you see of it the better you like it. (Quote by - Finley Peter Dunne)
Vices are often habits rather than passions. (Quote by - Antoine Rivarol)
Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess! (Quote by - Charles Dickens)
We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates. (Quote by - Denis Diderot)
We are more inclined to regret our virtues than our vices; but only the very honest will admit this. (Quote by - Holbrook Jackson)
We can endure neither our vices nor the remedies for them. (Quote by - Titus Livius)
We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue. (Quote by - Francois de La Rochefoucauld)
We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot. (Quote by - Saint Aurelius Augustine)
We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot. (Quote by - Saint Augustine)
We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by those images we have put in their place. (Quote by - Daniel J. Boorstin)
What is public history but a register of the successes and disappointments, the vices, the follies and the quarrels of those who engage in contention for power. (Quote by - William S. Paley)
What were once vices are the fashion of the day. (Quote by - Seneca)
When our vices desert us, we flatter ourselves that we are deserting our vices. (Quote by - Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld)
When our vices leave us, we flatter ourselves that we are leaving them. (Quote by - Francois de la Rochefoucauld)
When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them. (Quote by - Francois de La Rochefoucauld )
Without enthusiasm, virtue functions not at all, and vice only poorly. (Quote by - Mignon McLaughlin)
