Vices Quotes - Page 19

It is alarming ... to see Mr Gandhi, a seditious Middle Temple lawyer, now posing as a fakir of a type well-known in the East, striding half-naked up the steps of the Vice-regal Palace while he is still organising and conducting a campaign of civil disobedience.

Virtue steals, like a guilty thing, into the secret haunts of vice and infamy, clings to their devoted victim, and will not be driven quite away. Nothing can destroy the human heart.

I have known persons without a friend--never any one without some virtue. The virtues of the former conspired with their vices to make the whole world their enemies.

Vice, like disease, floats in the atmosphere.

I would say it's more important who the treasury secretary is than who the vice president is. If you want to have a debate here, I'd like a debate between potential treasury secretaries than the vice presidential debate.

Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want.

My only aversion to vice, is the price.

Just because I'm a younger artist doesn't mean I can't work with a veteran and vice versa.

I am the worst influence. If you can't handle your vices, then I am the Devil.

The one obvious thing is that the devices are so good now that you can also see their limitations extremely well.

We are going to make mistakes, but none of us can become an expert in family history work without first being a novice.

Calumny is a vice of curious constitution; trying to kill it keeps it alive; leave it to itself and it will die a natural death.

The superior power of population cannot be checked without producing misery or vice.

In sum, all actions and habits are to be esteemed good or evil by their causes and usefulness in reference to the commonwealth, and not by their mediocrity, nor by their being commended. For several men praise several customs, and, contrarily, what one calls vice, another calls virtue, as their present affections lead them.

Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness.

Eventually the Internet will be accessed by PC, television, and wireless devices.

Self-consciousness, that's what it is. Always my abiding vice. I keep seeing myself. Me watching myself watching others watch me. How do you lose that? What's the trick?

You can change your faith without changing gods, and vice versa.

Style must be adapted to the woman and not vice versa. The same can be said of clothes.

Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.

What once were vices are manners now.

Venezuela and its revolution will endure under the proven leadership of Vice President Maduro.

Where virtue is, sensibility is the ornament and becoming attire of virtue. On certain occasions it may almost be said to become virtue. But sensibility and all the amiable qualities may likewise become, and too often have become, the panders of vice and the instruments of seduction.

Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.

That friendship may be at once fond and lasting, there must not only be equal virtue on each part, but virtue of the same kind; not only the same end must be proposed, but the same means must be approved by both.