Vices Quotes - Page 14

Patriotism is one of the unalterable facts of man's nature. It is a virtue if you like it, and a vice if you don't like it.

When poverty is more disgraceful than even vice, is not morality cut to the quick?

After being sworn in to office, vice presidents have usually been relegated to the sidelines, where they just don't get to do very much.

Here am I: at one stroke incestuous, adulteress, sodomite, and all that in a girl who only lost her maidenhead today! What progress, my friends with what rapidity I advance along the thorny road of vice!

History teaches us virtue, but nature never ceases to teachh us vice.

The rhythmic pattern of the poem, which forces continuity of attention - incites a pleasurable compulsion to 'follow' - is either a tried metrical suasion-contrivance or a specially invented pattern of physical insistences, equally, if not more, binding in its effect on the reader. From a straight linguistic point of view, there is room for wonder if there is not latent vice in this environment in which pleasurable physically-compelled responses, produced by incidents of poetic utterance, are identified with the Good.

Nothing is absolutely unjust. There is no real equity, no total grandeur, no pure vice, no absolute crime.

The higher mental activities are pretty tough and resilient, but it is a devastating experience if the drive does stop. Some people lose it in their forties and can only stop. In England they are a source of Vice-Chancellors.

If thou dost still retain the same ill habits, the same follies, too, still thou art bound to vice, and still a slave.

In our ideals we unwittingly reveal our vices.

No vice exists which does not pretend to be more or less like some virtue, and which does not take advantage of this assumed resemblance.

The weak-minded man is the slave of his vices and the dupe of his virtues.

Vice: Whatever was passion in the contemplation of man, being brought forth by his will into action.

There are so many things that are incompatible with a single life. No one can learn fully in one life the lessons of unbroken health and of bodily sickness, of riches and of poverty, of study and action, of comradeship and isolation, of defiance and of obedience, of virtue and of vice.

When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa.

How can we explain the perpetuity of envy--a vice which yields no return?

It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd.

We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke strops our vice.

There exists no culture in which adultery is unknown, no cultural device or code that extinguishes philandering.

I have a foolproof device for judging whether a picture is good or bad. If my fanny squirms, it's bad. If my fanny doesn't squirm, it's good.

I am the first to admit that were I not a woman, I would not have been the vice-presidential nominee.

Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.

Avarice is the vice of declining years.

Chastity is a virtue with some, but with many it is almost a vice.

We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.