Vices Quotes - Page 9

He's put on weight and I've lost it, and vice versa.

We know the human brain is a device to keep the ears from grating on one another.

The French like burgers, Madonna and Miami Vice.

When we envy another, we make their virtue our vice.

If it is true that cowardice is the most grave vice, then the dog, at least, is not guilty of it.

How unjust life is, to make physical charm so immediately apparent or absent, when one can get away with vices untold for ever.

Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion in vice.

Luis Figo is totally different to David Beckham, and vice versa.

Vice president: A spare tire on the automobile of government.

When I mentioned about Adlai Stevenson, if he was vice president there would never have been an assassination of our beloved President Kennedy

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

On Foreign Secretary Robin Cook: If a man cannot keep a measly affair secret, what is he doing in charge of the Intelligence Service?

When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.

Freedom and slavery, the one is the name of virtue, and the other of vice, and both are acts of the will.

It is always the novice who exaggerates.

Any device in science is a window on to nature, and each new window contributes to the breadth of our view.

What you know will keep you from what you need to know if you don't remain a novice.

Coercion may prevent many transgressions; but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom may lead to many transgressions, but it lends even to vices a less ignoble form.

It is of great importance to set a resolution, not to be shaken, never to tell an untruth. There is no vice so mean, so pitiful, so contemptible; and he who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and a third time, till at length it becomes habitual.

A man's heterosexuality will not put up with any homosexuality, and vice versa.

The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.

Having loved the Stones all the time I was growing up, I wasn't about to see them go and split up. It got very close to it in the 80s, when Mick thought that Keith hated him and vice versa.

There have been times in my life that I've had a ton of vices, and my demons have run amok for years and years and years.

Virtues are often conquered by vices, but their rout is most complete when it is inflicted by other virtues, more militant, more efficient, or more congenial.