Vices quotes:

+1
Share
Pin
Like
Send
Share
  • Vices are simply the errors which a man makes in his search after his own happiness. Unlike crimes, they imply no malice toward others, and no interference with their persons or property. -- Lysander Spooner
  • Vices are their own punishment -- Aesop
  • Vices are often habits rather than passions. -- Antoine Rivarol
  • Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
  • He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire. -- Winston Churchill
  • It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. -- Abraham Lincoln
  • It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations. -- Walter Bagehot
  • The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues. -- Rene Descartes
  • Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man. -- Benjamin Franklin
  • The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues. -- Elizabeth Taylor
  • Vices are those acts by which a man harms himself or his property. Crimes are those acts by which one man harms the person or property of another. -- Lysander Spooner
  • Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • He who busies himself with things other than improvement of his own self becomes perplexed in darkness and entangled in ruin. His evil spirits immerse him deep in vices and make his bad actions seem handsome. -- Ali ibn Abi Talib
  • Every vice has its excuse ready. -- Publilius Syrus
  • Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess! -- Charles Dickens
  • A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues. -- Plutarch
  • Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices. -- Benjamin Franklin
  • Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness. -- Walter Scott
  • Here's a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once. -- Tallulah Bankhead
  • The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds. -- Samuel Butler
  • The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to plague us. -- William Shakespeare
  • The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries. -- Winston Churchill
  • Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps. -- Quentin Crisp
  • A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doing what is right and complying with what is wrong. -- Horace
  • Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners - your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards - who dishonor the vices and bring them into bad repute. -- Thornton Wilder
  • Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures. -- Theodore Roosevelt
  • Vices are not crimes. -- Lysander Spooner
  • Vices are simply overworked virtues ... -- Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Vices of the time; vices of the man. -- Francis Bacon
  • Vices that are familiar we pardon, and only new ones reprehend. -- Publilius Syrus
  • There is no evil that does not offer inducements. Vices tempt you by the rewards which they offer. -- Seneca the Younger
  • Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have. -- Alexander Pope
  • Vices are ingredients of virtues just as poisons are ingredients of remedies. Prudence mixes and tempers them and uses them effectively against life's ills. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
  • Incivility is not a Vice of the Soul, but the effect of several Vices; of Vanity, Ignorance of Duty, Laziness, Stupidity, Distraction, Contempt of others, and Jealousy. -- Jean de la Bruyere
  • Vices and frailties correct each other, like acids and alkalies. If each vicious man had but one vice, I do not know how the world could go on. -- Richard Whately
  • There is no evil that does not promise inducements. Avarice promises money; luxury, a varied assortment of pleasures; ambition, a purple robe and applause. Vices tempt you by the rewards they offer. -- Seneca the Younger
  • Vices are usually pleasurable, at least for the time being, and often do not disclose themselves as vices, by their effects, until after they have been practised for many years; perhaps for a lifetime. -- Lysander Spooner
  • Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
  • It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster. -- Rebecca West
  • I am the worst influence. If you can't handle your vices, then I am the Devil. -- Tori Amos
  • We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot. -- Saint Augustine
  • We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
  • We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by those images we have put in their place. -- Daniel J. Boorstin
  • 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. -- Wilhelm von Humboldt
  • Man's natural character is to imitate; that of the sensitive man is to resemble as closely as possible the person whom he loves. It is only by imitating the vices of others that I have earned my misfortunes. -- Marquis de Sade
  • Have not prisons - which kill all will and force of character in man, which enclose within their walls more vices than are met with on any other spot of the globe - always been universities of crime? -- Peter Kropotkin
  • We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
  • Karma brings us ever back to rebirth, binds us to the wheel of births and deaths. Good Karma drags us back as relentlessly as bad, and the chain which is wrought out of our virtues holds as firmly and as closely as that forged from our vices. -- Annie Besant
  • So much of our lives is given over to the consideration of our imperfections that there is no time to improve our imaginary virtues. The truth is we only perfect our vices, and man is a worse creature when he dies than he was when he was born. -- Edward Dahlberg
  • As a pastor, I addressed the sorts of issues I see people struggling with most and the issues talked about most directly and most frequently in the New Testament. That leads us to recurring concerns with sexual immorality, relational sins, and vices associated with the breaking of the Ten Commandments. -- Kevin DeYoung
  • One of the most basic factors in sports is that winning becomes a habit, and losing is the same way. When failure starts to feel normal in your life or your work or even your darkest vices, you won't have to go looking for trouble, because trouble will find you. Count on it. -- Hunter S. Thompson
  • I have a dogmatic certainty: God is in every person's life. God is in everyone's life. Even if the life of a person has been a disaster, even if it is destroyed by vices, drugs or anything else - God is in this person's life. You can - you must - try to seek God in every human life. -- Pope Francis
  • We pardon familiar vices. -- Seneca the Younger
  • Pride eradicates all vices but itself. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • My pleasures disappeared with my vices. -- Hanif Kureishi
  • Let thy vices die before thee. -- Benjamin Franklin
  • Most virtue lies between two vices. -- Horace
  • War with vices, but peace with individuals. -- Isidore of Seville
  • I've got two vices: cigarettes and taters. -- Paula Deen
  • Cowardice is the most terrible of vices. -- Mikhail Bulgakov
  • The vices of some men are magnificent. -- Charles Lamb
  • What once were vices are manners now. -- Seneca the Younger
  • Moral vices prosper by dressing themselves as virtues. -- Kenneth Minogue
  • --
  • Our vices are the excesses of our virtues. -- Pleasant Rowland
  • Hate no one; hate their vices, not themselves. -- John Gardiner Calkins Brainard
  • In our ideals we unwittingly reveal our vices. -- Jean Rostand
  • Unlike other vices, cruelty, alas, is never boring. -- Mason Cooley
  • Virtue lies half way between two opposite vices. -- Horace
  • Great parts produce great vices as well as virtues. -- Plato
  • Neither our vices nor our virtues further the poem. -- William Dunbar
  • We can endure neither our vices nor their cure. -- Livy
  • Our vices are attempts to combine self-medication and enjoyment. -- Mason Cooley
  • It is a great thing to know your vices. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
  • I do not hate the man, but his vices. -- Martial
  • Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed . -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
  • Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today. -- Aristophanes
  • The world will tolerate many vices, but not their diminutives. -- Arthur Helps
  • Change generally pleases the rich. [Lat., Plerumque gratae divitibus vices.] -- Horace
  • It costs more to maintain ten vices than one virtue. -- H. L. Mencken
  • Life would be pretty boring if we didn't have vices. -- Erin Heatherton
  • The virtues of society are the vices of the saints. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • What were once vices are the fashion of the day. -- Seneca the Younger
  • The passions of the young are vices in the old. -- Joseph Joubert
  • Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness. -- Thomas Carlyle
  • Society punishes not the vices of its members, but their detection ... -- Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
  • Crimes sometimes shock us too much; vices almost always too little. -- Augustus Hare
  • Drunkenness doesn't create vices, but it brings them to the fore. -- Seneca the Younger
  • Our virtues live upon our incomes; our vices consume our capital. -- Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
  • If vices were profitable, the virtuous man would be the sinner. -- Francis Bacon
  • Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
  • HERMIT, n. A person whose vices and follies are not sociable. -- Ambrose Bierce
  • In the end, the sum of my vices is all me. -- Melina Marchetta
  • Minor vices lead to major ones, but minor virtues stay put. -- Mignon McLaughlin
  • Men love their vices and hate them at the same time. -- Seneca the Younger
  • I have a number of vices, one of which is moderation. -- E. L. Doctorow
  • The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
  • The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
  • We can endure neither our vices nor the remedies for them. -- Livy
  • Children will imitate their fathers in their vices, seldom in their repentance. -- Charles Spurgeon
  • Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue. -- Moliere
  • There are many vices which are not believed because of their magnitude ... -- Delarivier Manley
  • Some, by admiring other men's virtues, become enemies to their own vices. -- Bias of Priene
  • The vices we scoff at in others laugh at us within ourselves. -- Thomas Browne
  • We tolerate without rebuke the vices with which we have grown familiar. -- Publilius Syrus
  • The vices are never so well employed as in combating one another. -- William Hazlitt
  • The vices of youth now exceed my powers, but not my fancy. -- Mason Cooley
  • Party spirit enlists a man's virtues in the cause of his vices. -- Richard Whately
  • The little vices of the great must needs be accounted very great. -- Publilius Syrus
  • When we are sick our virtues and our vices are in abeyance. -- Luc de Clapiers
  • By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little. -- Edmund Burke
  • Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended. -- John Dryden
  • Envy, the meanest of vices, creeps on the ground like a serpent. -- Ovid
  • Through tattered clothes great vices do appear; Robes and furred gowns hide all. -- William Shakespeare
  • The virtue of some people consists wholly in condemning the vices in others. -- Herbert Samuel
  • We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues. -- Henry Fielding
  • The virtue of some people consists wholly in condemning the vices in others. -- Herbert Samuel
  • All institutions are prone to corruption and to the vices of their members. -- Morris West
  • Through tattered clothes, small vices do appear. Robes and furred gowns hide all. -- William Shakespeare
+1
Share
Pin
Like
Send
Share