Vices Quotes - Page 37

I cruelly hate cruelty, both by nature and reason, as the worst of all the vices. But then I am so soft in this that I cannot seea chicken's neck wrung without distress, and cannot bear to hear the squealing of a hare between the teeth of my hounds.

Some, either from being glued to vice by a natural attachment, or from long habit, no longer recognize its ugliness.

Our religion is made to eradicate vices, instead it encourages them, covers them, and nurtures them.

After a tongue has once got the knack of lying, it is not to be imagined how impossible almost it is to reclaim it. Whence it comes to pass, that we see some men, who are otherwise very honest, so subject to this vice.

Paying debt service to banks leaves less income to buy goods and services.

For AXE to take a chance on me and to help me, you know, collaborating with them was just a really, really big deal for me. It shows that they bought into me and vice versa so it's a good relationship.

My worst vice is also my best vice. It's my empathy and my love for people-it can wear me out. I rarely can turn a person in need down or because I love people, I love energy.

In the end, the sum of my vices is all me.

Unlike other vices, cruelty, alas, is never boring.

The vices of youth now exceed my powers, but not my fancy.

Some loves are like a vice that has ceased to give pleasure.

Indulge me, John. Cynicism and foul language are the only vices I'm presently capable of. Everything else takes energy or money.

The vice presidential candidate tends to be a bit of an afterthought.

Women are from their very infancy debarred those advantages with the want of which they are aftewards reproached, and nursed up in those vices which will hereafter be upbraided to them. So partial are men as to expect bricks when they afford no straw.

The stubborn stance of some European governments on the refugee question is a reprisal less aimed at Angela Merkel or (Vice Chancellor) Sigmar Gabriel than at certain people on Wilhelmstrasse in Berlin.

A novice always behaves with propriety.

The virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things.

Good-faith re-examination of a position you've held in the past should be seen as a virtue, not a vice.

I don't have any [specific] intelligence about a Vice-Disney deal, but I do know that everybody's nervous about these emerging players, who can come in and have enough attractive, original content to take market share.

Grandmother belongs to the generation of women who were satisfied to have men retain their vices, if they removed their hats.

I'm not interested in being Donald Trump or anybody else's vice president, that's not what I'm aiming at.

I'm not looking to be anyone's vice president. I looking to be the president of the United States. Or, I'll be a private citizen, there's nothing wrong with being a private citizen.

I'm always looking for a way to serve the nation, but I don't believe that it will be as vice president and I'm really not seeking it, I'm not requesting it and it won't happen.

I have no intention of being vice president. I have said it clearly.

There is probably no one, however rigid his virtue, who is not liable to find himself, by the complexity of circumstances, living at close quarters with the very vice which he himself has been most outspoken in condemning -- without altogether recognizing it beneath the disguise of ambiguous behavior which it assumes in his presence.