Vices Quotes - Page 25

Drunkenness is the vice of a good constitution or of a bad memory of a constitution so treacherously good that it never bends till it breaks; or of a memory that recollects the pleasures of getting intoxicated, but forgets the pains of getting sober.

No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.

We don't see the people that vice destroys. We just see the glamour of it - everywhere we look, from billboard signs to movies, to newspapers, to magazines. We see the destruction of human life.

If the players don't trust the coach, it is a problem, and vice versa.

There's no such thing as going to a soapbox and saying, 'The government's corrupt,' and not having the intelligence service see your face. In the digital world, that can be done.

The program should know if someone is at the keyboard or joystick or if it is just sitting there idle. It should know if someone is proficient in its use or a novice.

Slander is a vice that strikes a double blow; wounding both him that commits, and him against whom it is committed.

Let thy vices die before thee.

What maintains one vice would bring up two children.

Virtue may not always make a Face handsome, but Vice will certainly make it ugly.

What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.

Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.

The vices respectively fall short of or exceed what is right in both passions and actions, while virtue both finds and chooses that which is intermediate.

Virtue also depends on ourselves. And so also does vice. For where we are free to act we are also free to refrain from acting, and where we are able to say No we are also able to say Yes; if therefore we are responsible for doing a thing when to do it right, we are also responsible for not doing it when not to do it is wrong, and if we are responsible for rightly not doing a thing, we are also responsible for wrongly doing it.

Our virtues are voluntary (and in fact we are in a sense ourselves partly the cause of our moral dispositions, and it is our having a certain character that makes us set up an end of a certain kind), it follows that our vices are voluntary also; they are voluntary in the same manner as our virtues.

Satire, though it may exaggerate the vice it lashes, is not justified in creating it in order that it may be lashed.

HERMIT, n. A person whose vices and follies are not sociable.

An army is a nation within a nation, it is one of the vices of courage.

If a [democratic] society displays less brilliance than an aristocracy, there will also be less wretchedness; pleasures will be less outrageous and wellbeing will be shared by all; the sciences will be on a smaller scale but ignorance will be less common; opinions will be less vigorous and habits gentler; you will notice more vices and fewer crimes.

Count all th' advantage prosperous Vice attains, 'Tis but what Virtue flies from and disdains: And grant the bad what happiness they would, One they must want--which is, to pass for good.

Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.

I have always thought it would be easier to redeem a man steeped in vice and crime than a greedy, narrow-minded, pitiless merchant.

For in the fatness of these pursy times Virtue itself of vice must pardon beg.

The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.

It would be hard to find a single instance of a direct assault by positive effort upon poverty, vice, and misery which has not either failed or, if it has not failed directly and entirely, has not entailed other evils greater than the one which it removed.