Quotes about vices
vices virtue
I find that the best virtue I have has in it some tincture of vice. Michel de Montaigne
vices sometimes virtue
Virtue sometimes pretends. Vice is always sincere. Mason Cooley
vices boring cruelty
Unlike other vices, cruelty, alas, is never boring.
vices three roles
You know, my role as Vice Chairman is a lot less tiring than playing matches every three days. Michel Patini
vices internet free-speech
I like something with 'vice' in it. Ted Turner
vices supreme shallowness
The supreme vice is shallowness. Oscar Wilde
vices scottish virtue
It can fairly be said of John Smith that he had all the virtues of a Scottish presbyterian, but none of the vices. Menzies Campbell
vices lied said
I thought you said you were the one in charge!" Ce'Nedra exclaimed. I lied." Silk said. "It's a vice I have. David Eddings
vices morality virtue
Bourgeois morality is largely a system of making cheap virtues a cloak for expensive vices. George Bernard Shaw
vices love-myself virtue
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. Erich Fromm
vices
Liberate yourself from my vice-like grip! J. D. Salinger
vices virtue sexuality
Chastity is a virtue with some, but with many it is almost a vice. Friedrich Nietzsche
vices impossible human-nature
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? George Washington
vices collaboration vice-versa
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. Hilary Swank
vices explanation
The American vice is explanation. Gore Vidal
vices virtue calculations
Virtue by calculation is the virtue of vice. Joseph Joubert
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 hindsight historian
Hindsight is the historian's necessary vice. Hilary Mantel
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 virtue shortcomings
Vices are simply overworked virtues ... Laura Ingalls Wilder
vices virtue produce
Great parts produce great vices as well as virtues. Plato
vices social restriction
It is the restrictions placed on vice by our social code which makes its pursuit so peculiarly agreeable. Kenneth Grahame
vices masters valet
The confidant of my vices is my master, though he were my valet. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
vices speak accusation
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 Epictetus
vices vice-versa credibility
The truth of a proposition has nothing to do with its credibility. And vice versa. Robert A. Heinlein
vices saint virtue
The virtues of society are the vices of the saints. Ralph Waldo Emerson
vices virtue involuntary
Virtue is voluntary, vice involuntary.
vices different vice-versa
Luis Figo is totally different to David Beckham, and vice versa. Kevin Keegan
vices assuming virtue
There is probably no one, however rigid his virtue, who is not liable to find himself, by the complexity of circumstances, living at close quarters with the very vice which he himself has been most outspoken in condemning -- without altogether recognizing it beneath the disguise of ambiguous behavior which it assumes in his presence. Marcel Proust
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 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.