Vices Quotes - Page 21

It is the business of a virtuous clergyman to censure vice in every appearance of it.

With comics it's very close, like, "I don't want to say anything onstage that I wouldn't say offstage." Or vice versa. I say "faggot" in my special and in the joke I am the faggot, if that makes sense.

Without enthusiasm, virtue functions not at all, and vice only poorly.

I find that the best virtue I have has in it some tincture of vice.

Virtue sometimes pretends. Vice is always sincere.

Our virtues, as well as our vices, are often scourges for our own backs.

Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.

Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.

The vices of the rich and great are mistaken for error; and those of the poor and lowly, for crimes.

If they want to know if prostitutes are positive, they should test the Vice cops.

Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed (from friendship). [Lat., Assentatio, vitiorum adjutrix, procul amoveatur.]

When has a Democratic political activist been poisoned by the GOP, or vice versa? We are not the same as #Putin.

For a government to declare a vice to be a crime, and to punish it as such, is an attempt to falsify the very nature of things. It is as absurd as it would be to declare truth to be a falsehood, or falsehood a truth.

Extremism is the pursuit of the presidency is an unpardonable vice. Moderation in the affairs of the nation is the highest virtue.

The vice named surrealism is the immoderate and impassioned use of the stupefacient image or rather of the uncontrolled provocation of the image for its own sake and for the element of unpredictable perturbation and of metamorphosis which it introduces into the domain of representation; for each image on each occasion forces you to revise the entire Universe.

Let them show me a cottage where there are not the same vices of which they accuse the courts.

Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life, and if Virtue is not its own reward, I don't know any other stipend annexed to it.

A thirst for gold, The beggar's vice, which can but overwhelm The meanest hearts.

My secret vice is Sudoku puzzles. Can't stop playing them. My parents are accountants. I blame them entirely.

Vices are simply overworked virtues.

I have more things going on right now than I can actually do without the invention of a cloning device. It is great!

Most of the vices and mortal sins condemned today correspond to inclinations that were purely adaptive or at least harmless in primitive man

Food is my thing, I do not smoke or drink, so food is my vice.

Vice deceives us when dressed in the garb of virtue.

Virtue by calculation is the virtue of vice.