Quotes about vices
vices tendencies tempted
The general tendency [is] to be censorious of the vices to which one has not been tempted. Rebecca West
vices sin slave
The will is truly free, when it is not the slave of vices and sins. Saint Augustine
vices nine penalties
Nine-tenths of our measures for preventing vice are really protective towards it, because they ward off the penalty. William Graham Sumner
vices wells employed
The vices are never so well employed as in combating one another. William Hazlitt
vices dishonesty murder
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. Laurence Sterne
vices needs prudent
A prince must be prudent enough to know how to escape the bad reputation of those vices that would lose the state for him, and must protect himself from those that will not lose it for him, if this is possible; but if he cannot, he need not concern himself unduly if he ignores these less serious vices. Niccolo Machiavelli
vices sake
Perhaps [James Herondale] loved vice for vice's own sake. Cassandra Clare
vices virtue calculations
Virtue by calculation is the virtue of vice. Joseph Joubert
vices sincerity worst
The worst vice of the fanatic is his sincerity. Oscar Wilde
vices drink smoke
Food is my thing, I do not smoke or drink, so food is my vice. Kathy Griffin
vices great-things knows
It is a great thing to know your vices. Marcus Tullius Cicero
vices flattery handmaids
Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed (from friendship). [Lat., Assentatio, vitiorum adjutrix, procul amoveatur.]
vices flattery handmaids
Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed .
vices virtue involuntary
Virtue is voluntary, vice involuntary. Plato
vices different vice-versa
Luis Figo is totally different to David Beckham, and vice versa. Kevin Keegan
vices saint virtue
The virtues of society are the vices of the saints. Ralph Waldo Emerson
vices casts
I was so happy when they cast me in Chocolat, because it's one of my vices. Juliette Binoche
vices innocence kind
To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery. Ouida
vices usual virtue
When depression economics prevails, the usual rules of economic policy no longer apply: virtue becomes vice, caution is risky and prudence is folly. Paul Krugman
vices progression
Vice is a peripatetic, always in progression.
vices prison crime
Vices are not crimes. Lysander Spooner
vices form miscellaneous
Let's not talk so much about vice. I'm against vice in all forms. John F. Kennedy
vices sometimes virtue
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. John Calvin
vices cures endure
We can endure neither our vices nor their cure. Livy
vices affair virtue
Extremism is the pursuit of the presidency is an unpardonable vice. Moderation in the affairs of the nation is the highest virtue. Lyndon B. Johnson
vices masters valet
The confidant of my vices is my master, though he were my valet. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
vices hindsight historian
Hindsight is the historian's necessary vice. Hilary Mantel
vices kind satire
Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended. John Dryden
vices should vice-versa
Photos should suggest a word(s) and vice versa. They should be equal and interchangeable. John Baldessari
vices able ifs
If I have one vice and I can call it nothing else it is not able to say 'no'. Abraham Lincoln
vices dignity virtue
Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast; But shall the dignity of vice be lost? Alexander Pope
vices drink popsicles
I don't drink anymore... I freeze it and eat it like a popsicle. Dean Martin
vices thumbs vice-versa
My rule of thumb is, what Siskel and Ebert like, I don't, and vice versa. David Lynch