Vices Quotes - Page 24

What is pity but the vice of kindness.

Vice-President Ford, possibly preparing for higher duties, assessed Kissinger's part in the Syrian-Israeli troop disengagement as "the great diplomatic triumph of this century or perhaps any other.

Counsel and conversation is a good second education, that improves all the virtue and corrects all the vice of the former, and of nature itself.

But virtue too, as well as vice, is clad in flesh and blood.

Taste and elegance, though they are reckoned only among the smaller and secondary morals, yet are of no mean importance in the regulations of life. A moral taste is not of force to turn vice into virtue; but it recommends virtue with something like the blandishments of pleasure, and it infinitely abates the evils of vice.

Vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.

I finally chalked it up to the fact that the brain is truly an extraordinary device: more extraordinary than we can even guess.

It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness.

There should be no such thing as a vice law. Every vice is only a bad habit, and the punishment is inherent in the act.

Our information lives will be better served when we are free to get to our information from wherever we are, with any device available.

We haven't really had the time yet to pore through all those records in Baghdad. We'll find ample evidence confirming the link, that is the connection if you will between al Qaida and the Iraqi intelligence services. They have worked together on a number of occasions.

One thing that struck me early is that you don’t put into a photograph what’s going to come out. Or, vice versa, what comes out is not what you put in.

A writer's business is minding other people's business ... all the vices of the village gossip are the virtues of the writer.

The end of all moral speculations is to teach us our duty; and, by proper representations of the deformity of vice and beauty of virtue, beget correspondent habits, and engage us to avoid the one, and embrace the other.

.. that which renders morality an active principle and constitutes virtue our happiness, and vice our misery: it is probable, I say, that this final sentence depends on some internal sense or feeling, which nature has made universal in the whole species.

All the modern devices we have enable us to investigate things and have enabled us to do better.

By 1980, when I came out of prison, The Sun did a campaign to stop putting vice girls in prison. We've talked about it ever since and nothing has been done about it.

No more astounding relic of the subjection of women survives in western civilization than the status of the prostitute.... In connection with what other illegal vice is the seller alone penalized, and not the buyer?

If I am virtuous and worthy, for whom should I not maintain a proper concern?

[On Vice-President Henry A. Wallace:] Much of what Mr. Wallace calls his global thinking is, no matter how you slice it, still globaloney.

A pacifist will often - at least nowadays - be an internationalist and vice versa. But history shows us that a pacifist need not think internationally.

I'm with someone who's got very high standards, and he doesn't tolerate all these ridiculous vices very easily. That's not reason enough to marry someone, although people have gotten married for less.

The vices of some men are magnificent.

Though folly, robed in purple, shines, Though vice exhausts Peruvian mines, Yet shall they tremble and turn pale When satire wields her mighty flail.

Faults of the head are punished in this world, those of the heart in another; but as most of our vices are compound, so also is their punishment.