Vices Quotes - Page 28

I'm kind of a hermit. Left to my own devices, I won't submerge myself in anything further afield than the driveway.

Her vice takes hold of her again, but she still refrains until some moment when, gnawed by some hideous caprice, she comes aground like a mournful wreck ruined by lust, in the midst of her own banal, perfidious pollution.

A vice utterly at variance with the happiness of him who harbors it, and, as such, condemned by self-love.

I consider myself a novice film actor.

Hostility to youth is the worst vice of the middle-aged.

If you're sounding right, you're probably walking right, and vice versa. If you get the footwork right - if you get even one line right in a rehearsal, the director will say, do you know when you said that, it was exactly the character. You were - really landed on it.

We are more speedily and fatally corrupted by domestic examples of vice, and particularly when they are impressed on our minds as from authority.

We are more inclined to regret our virtues than our vices; but only the very honest will admit this.

That the American, by temperament, worked to excess, was true; work and whiskey were his stimulants; work was a form of vice; but he never cared much for money or power after he earned them.

During an election campaign the air is full of speeches and vice versa.

What political leaders decide, intelligence services tend to seek to justify.

I think Brits probably feel that Americans are more like us than vice-versa, if that makes sense. Because we get everything American over here in Britain, but yet there are things which are staunchly English that you guys don't have.

It costs more to maintain ten vices than one virtue.

What's fun for other people may not be fun for you- and vice versa.

Concepts and intellectual devices or chops can't mask or conceal an underlying lack of emotive power.

Can it be, that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a Nation with its virtue? The experiment, at least, is recommended by every sentiment which ennobles human Nature. Alas! is it rendered impossible by its vices?

A reader is doubly guilty of bad manners against an author when he praises his second book at the expense of his first (or vice versa) and then expects the author to be grateful for what he has done.

What is more harmful than any vice? Practical sympathy and pity for all the failures and all the weak : Christianity.

People resent articulacy, as if articulacy were a form of vice.

Life was certainly more entertaining when people were indulging their vices as opposed to going to meetings to indulge in a new vice: discussing their innermost thoughts in public.

A dollar saved is a dollar earned but seldom vice versa.

At Cambridge, you have to kiss the vice-chancellor's fingers. But I missed out on that, 'cause I was doing a matinee. I don't want to kiss a strange man's fingers anyway.

I liked Bach played the way people expect Chopin to be played, and vice versa.

To a philosophic eye, the vices of the clergy are far less dangerous than their virtues.

It is only in some corner of the brain which we leave empty that Vice can obtain a lodging. When she knocks at your door be able to say: "No room for your ladyship; pass on.