Vices Quotes - Page 12

No exile at the South Pole or on the summit of Mont Blanc separates us more effectively from others than the practice of a hidden vice.

As regards this vice, we read that the peacock is more guilty of it than any other animal. For it is always contemplating the beauty of its tail, which it spreads in the form of a wheel, and by its cries attracts to itself the gaze of the creatures that surround it. And this is the last vice to be conquered.

It seems to me that liberal and humane people, of whom there are many among us, would, if they were asked to rank the vices, put cruelty first. Intuitively they would choose cruelty as the worst thing we do.

What wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear without the knowledge of evil? He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian.

If we escape punishment for our vices, why should we complain if we are not rewarded for our virtues?

In religion, faith is a virtue. In science, faith is a vice.

Virtue consists in fleeing vice.

The virtue of some people consists wholly in condemning the vices in others.

What's vice today may be virtue, tomorrow.

Men often mistake notoriety for fame, and would rather be remarked for their vices and follies than not be noticed at all!

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.

The problem with leftism as a vice is that everyone else is stuck with the hangover.

There was only one virtue, pugnacity; only one vice, pacifism. That is an essential condition of war.

Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.

But in all the annals of human vice, no power is as destructive or demonic as perverted sincerity

Virtues are dangerous as vices insofar as they are allowed to rule over one as authorities and not as qualities one develops oneself.

Pride is a vice not only dreadfully mischievous in human society, but perhaps of all others, the most insuperable bar to real inward improvement.

Gossip is vice enjoyed vicariously

In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or make others believe that they do. Wealth will be the highest virtue, poverty the greatest vice.

We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.

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

He cannot "tempt" to virtue as we do to vice. He wants them to learn to walk and must therefore take away His hand; and if only the will to walk is really there He is pleased even with their stumbles.

Joe Biden would probably be running a Denny's if he wasn't Vice President.

The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.

Vices are often habits rather than passions.