Vices Quotes - Page 22

Of the two, I prefer those who render vice lovable to those who degrade virtue.

Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honoris a private station.

The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.

There is no vice or folly that requires so much nicety and skill to manage as vanity; nor any which by ill management makes so contemptible a figure.

It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.

Vice gets more in this vicious world than piety.

Virtue that wavers is not virtue, but vice revolted from itself, and after a while returning. The actions of just and pious men do not darken in their middle course.

If I'm left to my own devices, I will be tempted to make the most unlistenable music possible.

Will you tell me how to prevent riches from producing luxury? Will you tell me how to prevent luxury from producing effeminacy, intoxication, extravagance, vice and folly?

The confidant of my vices is my master, though he were my valet.

Weaknesses, so called, are nothing more nor less than vice in disguise!

It is the rate of investment which governs the rate of saving, and not vice versa.

The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal it.

Vice, like virtue, Grows in small steps, and no true innocence Can ever fall at once to deepest guilt.

Slander is perhaps the only vice which no circumstance can palliate, as well as being one which we are most ingenious in concealing from ourselves.

I was fortunate to get a lot of mileage out of my vices . . . The point is not to be debilitated by your pleasures. Maybe I have lucky genes or something but I've never been truly addicted to anything, except pleasure in general.

Vice President Joe Biden said today that 'Syria must be held accountable.' Unfortunately, the Obama administration has never employed an accountant, so they have no idea how to do that.

The gross debaucheries and atrocious cruelties are covered with a resplendent mental veil because of the systematic exposition of the philosophic principles in all fields of vice. Its justification by logical method as well as by precepts and examples only makes vice more horrible in effect, both for degenerate and normal beings

Golf - a young man's vice and an old man's penance.

We play some smaller songs larger than they are the record, and vice versa. It took me a while to get used to playing live.

The President has only 190 million bosses. The Vice President has 190 million and one.

Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice.

Most virtue lies between two vices.

Innocence alone dares commit certain acts of audacity. Virtue, when tutored, is as calculating as vice.

A rent in your clothes is a mishap, a stain on them is a vice.