Quotes About Vices

I never trusted a man who never smoked or drank.

Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.

But what more oft in nations grown corrupt, And by their vices brought to servitude, Than to love bondage more than liberty, Bondage with ease than strenuous liberty.

It must, I think, be admitted that the evils of the world are due to moral defects quite as much as to lack of intelligence. But the human race has not hitherto discovered any method of eradicating moral defects; preaching and exhortation only add hypocrisy to the previous list of vices.

Resistance first feel like unhappiness. We're bored, no satisfaction, guilt, but we can't put our finger on it. Vices kick in.

La pereza es la madre de todos los vicios.

Because cruelty is made easier by hypocrisy and self-deception, they are bound to stand high on the list of vices that begins with cruelty.

It is interesting to note that immodesty in dress was not solely a problem of the 1960s till today, but it continued through time as other vices which the Church never failed to warn of and condemn. And it was a constant theme in pagan cultures, while Christianity always promoted dignity in dress.

Materialism and self-centeredness are the great vices of our age.

Some vices only lay hold of us by means of others, and these, like branches, fall on removal of the trunk.

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.

For God, the author of natures, not of vices, created man upright; but man, being of his own will corrupted, and justly condemned, begot corrupted and condemned children.

We make a ladder of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.

He studies virtues, vices, flaws and merits, the wisdom and puerility of others.

Over the years I'd surrendered many vices, among them whiskey, cigarettes, and the various non-Newtonian drugs, but marijuana and I remained steadfast companions.

There is nothing we can now call our own, for what we call so is the effect of art; crimes are made by decrees of the senate, or by the votes of the people; and as here-to-fore we are burdened by vices, so now we are oppressed by laws.

Pleasure is a vain illusion; she draws you on to a thousand follies, errors, and I may say vices, and then leaves you to deplore your thoughtless credulity.

Think neither fear nor courage saves us. Unnatural vices are fathered by our heroism. Virtues are forced upon us by our impudent crimes. These tears are shaken from the wrath-bearing tree.

Neither fear nor courage saves us. Unnatural vices Are fathered by our heroism. Virtues Are forced upon us by our impudent crimes.

Beauty is as summer fruits, which are easy to corrupt, and cannot last; and for the most part it makes a dissolute youth, and an age a little out of countenance; but yet certainly again, if it light well, it maketh virtue shine, and vices blush.

The vices of authority are chiefly four: delays, corruption, roughness, and facility.

Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humor?

È l'humus della vita, la banalità. Raramente ci piove addosso una perla, un granello di sabbia, un minuzzolo luccicante. E in questo oceano di onde qualunque, il potere è il vizio banale più comune nell'uomo.

Virtues are dangerous as vices insofar as they are allowed to rule over one as authorities and not as qualities one develops oneself.