Vices Quotes - Page 11

Humor is not an unconditional virtue; its moral character depends on its object. To laugh at the contemptible, is a virtue; to laugh at the good, is a hideous vice. Too often, humor is used as the camouflage of moral cowardice.

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

The cunning tempter, by avoiding the grossness of vice, often silences objections.

Nostalgia, the vice of the aged.

Nothing is quite so wretchedly corrupt as an aristocracy which has lost its power but kept its wealth and which still has endless leisure to devote to nothing but banal enjoyments. All its great thoughts and passionate energy are things of the past, and nothing but a host of petty, gnawing vices now cling to it like worms to a corpse.

Deceit is the false road to happiness; and all the joys we travel through to vice, like fairy banquets, vanish when we touch them.

Never trust a man who has not a single redeeming vice.

Interactivity has the virtue of democracy, conferring upon everyone with access to a computer the right and opportunity to be heard, but it's also saddled with democracy's vice - a tendency to assume that everyone who has a right to be heard has something to say that's worth hearing.

Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail.

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.

Those words, temperate and moderate, are words either of political cowardice, or of cunning, or seduction. 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 a species of vice.

Pride is both a virtue and a vice.

Good parents have children who do terrible things and vice-versa.

A lot of vices that I've had over the years were always to make up for some sort of character deficiency, one of them being shyness.

We are clearly betting on tablets being both content consumption and production devices.

What does the vice president do?

We tolerate without rebuke the vices with which we have grown familiar.

I have a dogmatic certainty: God is in every person's life. God is in everyone's life. Even if the life of a person has been a disaster, even if it is destroyed by vices, drugs or anything else - God is in this person's life. You can - you must - try to seek God in every human life.

Lying is a most disgraceful vice; it first despises God, and then fears men.

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

Therefore, in order not to have to rob his subjects, to be able to defend himself, not to become poor and contemptible, and not to be forced to become rapacious, a prince must consider it of little importance if he incurs the name of miser, for this is one of the vices that permits him to rule.

I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.

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.

Spare the person but lash the vice.

No vice is so bad as advice.