Vices Quotes - Page 13

[I]f vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established.

If left to their own devices a child will achieve.

Pitching always beats batting — and vice-versa.

Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied, And vice sometime by action dignified.

Well, whiles I am a beggar, I will rail, And say there is no sin but to be rich; And being rich, my virtue then shall be To say there is no vice but beggary

There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.

It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.

It [the intelligence service] concludes that Iraq has chemical and biological weapons, that Saddam has continued to produce them, that he has existing and active military plans for the use of chemical and biological weapons, which could be activated within 45 minutes, including against his own Shia population; and that he is actively trying to acquire nuclear weapons capability.

All mystical experience is coincidence; and vice versa, of course.

Those vices [luxury and neglect of decent manners] are vices of men, not of the times. [Lat., Hominum sunt ista [vitia], non temporum.

How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.

Where secrecy or mystery begins, vice or roguery is not far off.

In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa.

[Vice chairman of Barbour] Helen [Barbour] and I realized that I come from the same village that her ancestor John Barbour came from, who created Barbour. It just seemed like such a great connection.

My major vice is sarcasm with a side of caffeine addiction.

If we should cease to be generous and charitable because another is sordid and ungrateful, it would be much in the power of vice to extinguish Christian virtues.

If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong. I do not say "give them up," for they may be all you have; but conceal them like a vice, lest they should spoil the lives of better and simpler people.

The fashions of human affairs are brief and changeable, and fortune never remains long indulgent. [Lat., Breves et mutabiles vices rerum sunt, et fortuna nunquam simpliciter indulget.]

Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps.

Every vice has its excuse ready.

For lawless joys a bitter ending waits.

Constancy has nothing virtuous in itself, independently of the pleasure it confers, and partakes of the temporizing spirit of vice in proportion as it endures tamely moral defects of magnitude in the object of its indiscreet choice.

Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure

Man reaches each stage of his life as a novice.

He, who practices right, but in the hope of acquiring great renown, is very near to vice.