Famous Quotes & Sayings

Horace

Virtue consists in fleeing vice.

Horace

In vain will you fly from one vice if in your wilfulness you embrace another.

Horace

Virtue consists in avoiding vice, and is the highest wisdom. [Lat., Virtus est vitium fugere, et sapientia prima.]

Hank Azaria

When you become deeply involved with someone, their problems become yours, and vice versa. It's family.

Francis of Assisi

Nor did demons crucify Him; it is you who have crucified Him and crucify Him still, when you delight in your vices and sins.

Morris West

All institutions are prone to corruption and to the vices of their members.

Louis Kronenberger

In the history of mankind, fanaticism has caused more harm than vice.

Michel de Montaigne

I find that the best virtue I have has in it some tincture of vice.

Mason Cooley

Virtue sometimes pretends. Vice is always sincere.

Mason Cooley

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

Michel Patini

You know, my role as Vice Chairman is a lot less tiring than playing matches every three days.

Ted Turner

I like something with 'vice' in it.

Oscar Wilde

The supreme vice is shallowness.

Menzies Campbell

It can fairly be said of John Smith that he had all the virtues of a Scottish presbyterian, but none of the vices.

David Eddings

I thought you said you were the one in charge!" Ce'Nedra exclaimed. I lied." Silk said. "It's a vice I have.

George Bernard Shaw

Bourgeois morality is largely a system of making cheap virtues a cloak for expensive vices.

Erich Fromm

If it is a virtue to love my neighbor as a human being, it must be a virtue - and not a vice - to love myself, since I am a human being too.

J. D. Salinger

Liberate yourself from my vice-like grip!

Larry King

Some day, you're going to be vice president.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Chastity is a virtue with some, but with many it is almost a vice.

George Washington

Can it be, that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a Nation with its virtue? The experiment, at least, is recommended by every sentiment which ennobles human Nature. Alas! is it rendered impossible by its vices?

Hilary Swank

What I love about making movies is that it's a collaboration. It's one of the most rewarding things, to create something and have someone show you something that you didn't see, and vice versa.

Gore Vidal

The American vice is explanation.

Joseph Joubert

Virtue by calculation is the virtue of vice.

John Calvin

The vices of which we are full we carefully hide from others, and we flatter ourselves with the notion that they are small and trivial; we sometimes even embrace them as virtues.

Hilary Mantel

Hindsight is the historian's necessary vice.

Laurence Sterne

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.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

Vices are simply overworked virtues ...

Plato

Great parts produce great vices as well as virtues.

Kenneth Grahame

It is the restrictions placed on vice by our social code which makes its pursuit so peculiarly agreeable.

Laura Davies

You've got 12 teammates, all the caddies, the captain, the vice captain,

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The confidant of my vices is my master, though he were my valet.

Epictetus

If someone speaks badly of you, do not defend yourself against the accusations, but reply; "you obviously don't know about my other vices, otherwise you would have mentioned these as well