Vices Quotes - Page 32

I'm the Vice-President. They know it, and they know that I know it.

You cannot lift others to virtue on the one hand if you are entertaining vice on the other.

It's pretty hard to say no when a vice president-elect and a president-elect ask you to be part of the national team.

Just spreading the money around - that isn't what makes people better off; it's having more and better goods and services.

Left to my own devices I'd get up at midday every day of my life.

Tolerance is a virtue, but, like all virtues, when exaggerated it transforms itself into a vice.

Vice knows [its] ugly, so [it] puts on [a] mask.

It is therefore an excellent device to acquire knowledge from everybody.

Ignorance of true pleasure more frequently than temptation to that which is false, leads to vice.

I have not drawn a very rosy picture of the magician. I did not intend to do so. To the novice entering the life and promising himself ease, indolence, and wealth, I should say, Don't!

Life is art's rival and vice versa.

For there's no motion That tends to vice in man, but I affirm It is the woman's part.

Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit--or a mask.

The fear of punishment may be necessary to the suppression of vice; but it also suspends the finer motives of virtue.

People do not persist in their vices because they are not weary of them, but because they cannot leave them off. It is the nature of vice to leave us no resource but in itself.

The vices are never so well employed as in combating one another.

There is some virtue in almost every vice, except hypocrisy; and even that, while it is a mockery of virtue, is at the same time a compliment to it.

No distinction is 'tween man and man, But as his virtues add to him a glory Or vices cloud him.

Nine-tenths of our measures for preventing vice are really protective towards it, because they ward off the penalty.

There is no device whatever to be invented for securing happiness without industry, economy, and virtue.

What we call vice in our neighbor may be nothing less than a crude virtue. To him who knows nothing more of precious stones than he can learn from a daily contemplation of his breastpin, a diamond in the mine must be a very uncompromising sort of stone.

Hollis thought he looked like William Burroughs, minus the bohemian substrate (or perhaps the methadone). Like someone who'd be invited quail shooting with the vice-president, though too careful to get himself shot.

Nor is it the least advantage to health, accruing from such a way of life, that it expose those who follow it to fewer temptations to vice, than persons who live in crowded society.

The accumulation of numbers always augments in some measure moral corruptions, and the consequences to health of the various vices incident thereto, are well known.

Neither our vices nor our virtues further the poem.