Vices Quotes - Page 29

I deserved better than to be bullshitted by the vice president.

Nothing can be more real, or concern us more, than our own sentiments of pleasure and uneasiness; and if these be favourable to virtue and unfavourable to vice, no more can be requisite to the regulation of our conduct and behavior.

Everyone knows that I'm all in favour of apprenticeships, but let me tell you this is no time for a novice.

Of all the vices, avarice is the most generally detested; it is the effect of an avidity common to all men; it is because men hate those from whom they can expect nothing. The greedy misers rail at sordid misers.

Women who are the least bashful are not unfrequently the most modest; and we are never more deceived than when we would infer any laxity of principle from that freedom of demeanor which often arises from a total ignorance of vice.

Alas, human vices, however horrible one might imagine them to be, contain the proof (were it only in their infinite expansion) of man's longing for the infinite; but it is a longing that often takes the wrong route. It is my belief that the reason behind all culpable excesses lies in this depravation of the sense of the infinite.

I believe that I am God's exact intention. It's that balance of virtue and vice.

The writing doesn't distract me while I'm drawing and vice versa. I can devote my full attention to each.

Whatever folly men commit, be their shortcomings or their vices what they may, let us exercise forbearance; remember that when these faults appear in others it is our follies and vices that we behold.

My sobriety isn't up for discussion, but as for vices, I seem to hack away at them with my invisible machete from dawn till dusk. The vice of 'more' is an ongoing theme.

I can't expect others to share my virtues. It's good enough for me if they share my vices.

Dictionary: a malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic

Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.

There is more than a morsel of truth in the saying, "He who hates vice hates mankind."

I have learned, by some experience, that virtue and patriotism, vice and selfishness, are found in all parties, and that they differ less in their motives than in the policies they pursue.

Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.

It is the business of a comic poet to paint the vices and follies of human kind.

Mutual forgiveness of each vice. Such are the Gates of Paradise.

The Central Bank is constantly purchasing, purchasing and selling and vice versa - this is their job.

You must come to terms with your wholeself. the wholeness which exceeds all our virtue and all our vice.

We feel something like respect for consistency even in error. We lament the virtue that is debauched into a vice; but the vice that affects a virtue becomes the more detestable.

To me avarice seems not so much a vice as a deplorable piece of madness.

Its build quality is superb, given that I am a novice to it 6 months ago and being heavy handed it stands up very well. I have trouble thinking of something I enjoy more than setting off and popping the kite and screaming downwind!

Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher

O Lord, I wish to promote thy holy religion which is dreadfully neglected. I am desirous to save young persons from the vices of the age.