Quotes About Vices

Such are the characters formed in times of civil discord, when the highest qualities, perverted by party spirit, and inflamed by habitual opposition, are too often combined with vices and excesses which deprive them at once of their merit and of their lustre.

He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

And then I discovered an important rule that I'm going to pass on to you: 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.

My pleasures disappeared with my vices.

Luxury and dissipation, soft and gentle as their approaches are, and silently as they throw their silken chains about the heart, enslave it more than the most active and turbulent vices.

Men often mistake notoriety for fame, and would rather be noticed for their vices than not be noticed at all.

Weaknesses, so called, are nothing more nor less than vices in disguise.

I have faults enough, but they are not, I hope, of understanding. My temper I dare not vouch for. It is, I believe, too little yielding— certainly too little for the convenience of the world. I cannot forget the follies and vices of other so soon as I ought, nor their offenses against myself. My feelings are not puffed about with every attempt to move them. My temper would perhaps be called resentful. My good opinion once lost, is lost forever.

No consigo olvidar las locuras y los vicios de otros tan pronto como debiera, ni las ofensas que se me hacen. Mis sentimientos no se modifican cad vez que se intenta influir sobre ellos. Quizá pueda decirse que tiendo al resentimiento. Cuando pierdo mi buena opinión sobre alguien o algo, perdido está para siempre

I have faults enough, but they are not, I hope, of understanding. My temper I dare not vouch for. It is, I believe, too little yielding—certainly too little for the convenience of the world. I cannot forget the follies and vices of others so soon as I ought, nor their offenses against myself. My feelings are not puffed about with every attempt to move them. My temper would perhaps be called resentful. My good opinion once lost, is lost forever.

Too much work and too much energy kill a man just as effectively as too much assorted vice or too much drink.

To exterminate our popular vices is a work of far more importance to the character and happiness of our citizens than any other improvements in our system of education.

Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed. People talk sometimes of secret vices, there are no such things. If a wretched man has a vice, it shows itself in the lines of his mouth, the droop of his eyelids, the moulding of his hands even.

I would sooner have fifty unnatural vices than one unnatural virtue. It is unnatural virtue that makes the world, for those who suffer, such a premature Hell.

Lust, Greed, Anger, Attachment - These are all paths to hell.

pugnacity, greed, brutality, and sexual readiness were advantages in the struggle for existence. Probably every vice was once a virtue

Affectation proceeds from one of these two causes,--vanity or hypocrisy; for as vanity puts us on affecting false characters, in order to purchase applause; so hypocrisy sets us on an endeavor to avoid censure, by concealing our vices under an appearance of their opposite virtues

Great vices are the proper objects of our detestation, smaller faults of our pity, but affectation appears to be the only true source of the ridiculous

Hygiene is the corruption of medicine by morality. It is impossible to find a hygienist who does not debase his theory of the healthful with a theory of the virtuous. The true aim of medicine is not to make men virtuous; it is to safeguard and rescue them from the consequences of their vices.

Vanity is a strange passion; rather than be out of a job it will brag of its vices.

I have heard it said that women love men even for their vices," Anna began suddenly, "but I hate him for his virtues. I can't live with him. Do you understand?

The bounds of human possibility are not as confining as we think they are; they are made to seem to be tight by our weaknesses, our vices, our prejudices that confine them.

Los límites de lo posible en las cosas morales son más estrechos de lo que pensamos; nuestras debilidades, nuestros vicios, nuestros prejuicios son lo que restringen

Endlich werden sie Ihnen sagen, daß die Menschen aller Zeiten einander gleichen, daß sie die nämlichen Tugenden und die nämlichen Laster haben, daß man die Alten nur bewundere, weil sie alt sind. Das ist ebenfalls nicht wahr; denn man that ehedem große Dinge mit kleinen Mitteln und heutiges Tages thut man gerade das Gegentheil.