Vices Quotes - Page 23

Hindsight is the historian's necessary vice.

The reason that men are so slow to confess their vices is because they have not yet abandoned them.

Saint Augustine! well hast thou said, That of our vices we can frame A ladder, if we will but tread Beneath our feet each deed of shame.

Wit, like hunger, will be with great difficulty restrained from falling on vice and ignorance, where there is great plenty and variety of food.

Some virtuous women are too liberal in their insults to a frail sister; but virtue can support itself without borrowing any assistance from the vices of other women.

We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.

Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice.

For me, drawing generates thinking and vice versa.

Luxury and dissipation, soft and gentle as their approaches are, and silently as they throw their silken chains about the heart, enslave it more than the most active and turbulent vices

When you become deeply involved with someone, their problems become yours, and vice versa. It's family.

What has the women’s movement learned from Geraldine Ferraro’s candidacy for vice president? Never get married.

The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice.

A man given to vice is always an idealist.

Virtue does not truly reward her votary if she leaves him sad and half doubtful whether it would not have been better to serve vice.

The thing I've discovered that is a help is that there isn't a simple virtue or a simple vice. They're always connected. If you have Tendency A, that you loathe, you can almost be sure that Tendency B, which you love, is somehow connected to it.

Flippancy, the most hopeless form of intellectual vice.

The things we respond to at twenty are not necessarily the same things we will respond to at forty and vice versa. This is true in books and also in life

‎Honoured sir, poverty is not a vice, that's a true saying. Yet I know too that drunkeness is not a virtue, and that's even truer. But beggary, honoured sir, beggary is a vice. In poverty you may still retain your innate nobility of soul, but in beggary--never--no one. For beggary a man is not chased out of human society with a stick, he is swept out with a broom, so as to make it as humiliating as possible; and quite right, too, forasmuch as in beggary as I am ready to be the first to humiliate myself.

High fortune makes both our virtues and vices stand out as objects that are brought clearly to view by the light.

Hypocrisy is an homage that vice renders to virtue.

Other vices make their own way; this makes way for all vices. He that is a drunkard is qualified for all vice.

Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it

In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice.

Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it.

How rare it is to come across a piece of writing that is unambiguous, unqualified, and also unblurred by understatements or subtleties, and yet at the same time urbane and tolerant. It is a vice of the scientific method when applied to human affairs that it fosters hemming and hawing and a scrupulousness that easily degenerates into obscurity and meaninglessness.