Vices Quotes - Page 5

Manchester has everything but good looks..., the only place in England which escapes our characteristic vice of snobbery.

Fast cars are my only vice.

Art informs life in so many ways, and vice versa.

Without knowledge there can be no sure progress. Vice and barbarism are the inseparable companions of ignorance. Nor is it too much to say that, except in rare instances, the highest virtue is attained only through intelligence.

Extremism in defense of Liberty is no vice and moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

Vice, virtue - it's best not to be too moral. You'll cheat yourself out of too much life.

Ennui, the parent of expensive and ruinous vices.

I haven't a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming petty vices whatsoever.

Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.

Christianity gave Eros poison to drink; he did not die of it, certainly, but degenerated to Vice.

A fairytale is when you marry a frog and it turns out to be a princess. Reality is vice versa.

For a solitary animal egoism is a virtue that tends to preserve and improve the species: in any kind of community it becomes a destructive vice.

I find it difficult to say I'm black first and a woman second or vice versa. I can't make that kind of distinction. Amongst Aboriginal women I do my best to raise their consciousness both as women and as Aboriginals.

Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice.

I have so great a contempt and detestation for meanness, that I could sooner make a friend of one who had committed murder, than of a person who could be capable, in any instance, of the former vice. Under meanness, I comprehend dishonesty; under dishonesty, ingratitude; under ingratitude, irreligion; and under this latter, every species of vice and immorality in human nature.

Any man without a woman is incomplete, and vice-versa she's obsolete.

The greatest moral failing is to condemn something as a moral failing: no vice is worse than being judgmental.

I'm fascinated with the electronic devices that we can mess around with.

In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language; the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.

A vulgar man, in any ill that happens to him, blames others; a novice in philosophy blames himself; and a philosopher blames neither, the one nor the other.

An actor who is good at comedy can also be very good at drama, but not necessarily vice versa.

The will is truly free, when it is not the slave of vices and sins.

At communion we ought to ask for the remedy of the vice to which we feel ourselves most inclined.

A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice - but as yet unstained.

Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.