Vices Quotes - Page 17

Being virtuous is wonderful thing, but feeling virtuous is a shortcut to vice.

Virtue and vice are not arbitrary things; but there is a natural and eternal reason for goodness and virtue, and against vice and wickedness.

Hate no one; hate their vices, not themselves.

Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.

Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.

I have not so great a struggle with my vices, great and numerous as they are, as I have with my impatience. My efforts are not absolutely useless; yet I have never been able to conquer this ferocious wild beast.

Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Hillary Clinton is as qualified or more qualified than I am to be Vice President of the United States of America. Let's get that straight. She's a truly close personal friend. She is qualified to be President of the United States of America. She's easily qualified to be Vice President of the United States of America. Quite frankly, it might have been a better pick than me. But she's first rate.

Remember, no one decides who they're going to vote for based on the vice president. I mean that literally.

Cunning is none of the best nor worst qualities; it floats between virtue and vice; there is scarce any exigence where it may not, and perhaps ought not to be supplied by prudence.

As a stick, when once it is dry and stiff you may break it, but you can never bend it into a straighter posture; so doth the man become incorrigible who is settled and stiffened into vice.

It is but a step from companionship to slavery when one associates with vice.

Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it.

I readily admit I was not an expert on foreign policy but I was knowledgeable and I didn't need a man who was the Vice President of the United States and my opponent turning around and putting me down.

Idleness is the beginning of all psychology. What? Could it be that psychology is ? a vice?

If one would discern the centers of dominance in any society, one need only look to its definitions of "virtue" and "vice" or "legal" and "criminal," for, in the strength to set standards, resides the strength to maintain control.

Prohibition is an awful flop. We like it. It can't stop what it's meant to stop. We like it. It's left a trail of graft and slime It don't prohibit worth a dime It's filled our land with vice and crime, Nevertheless, we're for it.

I think pop music has done more for oral intercourse than anything else that has ever happened, and vice versa.

Weakness is more opposed to virtue than is vice.

There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false and perfidious.

Any device whatever by which one frees himself from the fear of others is a natural good.

Beware of flattery! 'tis a flowery weed, Which oft offends the very idol-vice, Whose shrine it would perfume.

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman.

This is the essential evil of vice: it debases a man.