Vices Quotes - Page 31

Let's not talk so much about vice. I'm against vice in all forms.

The philosophers have always given truth a bill of divorce, by separating what nature has joined together and vice versa.

Home Depot knows 'the more they help, the more they sell'-oh by the way, for the 'bottom liners' who disagree-it's also vice-versa.

Any virtue systematically applied becomes a vice. Morality is attention, not system.

US academic institutions are being bought via funding by biotechnology firms which exert a vice-like grip on the US government.

Prodigality is indeed the vice of a weak nature, as avarice is of a strong one; it comes of a weak craving for those blandishments of the world which are easily to be had for money, and which, when obtained, are as much worse than worthless as a harlot's love is worse than none.

The American vice is explanation.

The whole truth is generally the ally of virtue; a half-truth is always the ally of some vice.

You can't get closer to the heart of national sovereignty than national security and intelligence services.

Reading was my first solitary vice (and led to all others). I read while I ate, I read in the loo, I read in the bath. When I was supposed to be sleeping, I was reading.

Against the censurers of brevity. - Something said briefly can be the fruit of much long thought: but the reader who is a novice in this field, and has as yet reflected on it not at all, sees in everything said briefly something embryonic, not without censuring the author for having served him up such immature and unripened fare.

I feel like a novice, just as I felt before I knew anything of the keyboard. It is far too original, and I shall end up not being able to learn it myself.

Whilst weakness and timidity keep us to our duty, virtue has often all the honor.

There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.

If vices were profitable, the virtuous man would be the sinner.

Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it. Financial security then is a great help as it keeps you from worrying.

Vice is nice, but a little virtue won't hurt you.

Evil, which is our companion all our days, is not to be treated as a foe. It is wrong to cocker vice, but we grow narrow and pithless if we are furtive about it, for this is at best a pretense, and the sage knows good and evil are kindred. The worst of men harm others, and the best injure themselves.

The vices and the virtues are written in a language the world cannot construe; it reads them in a vile translation, and the translators are Failure and Success.

Every vice is already a punishment in itself... you don't need a ticket on top of it.

There is only one vice, which may be found in life with as strong features, and as high a colouring as needs be employed by any satyrist or comic poet; and that is AVARICE.

I thought you said you were the one in charge!" Ce'Nedra exclaimed. I lied." Silk said. "It's a vice I have.

I think everything that I learned about stagecraft and carrying through - creating a through point for a theatrical device.

In the twentieth century our highest praise is to call the Bible 'The World's Best Seller.' And it has come to be more and more difficult to say whether we think it is a best seller because it is great, or vice versa.

There is no known device for artistic contraception.