Quotes About Vices

Ignoring the vices of our friends and the virtues of our enemies sets us up for nasty surprises.

Moi, je veux montrer mes qualités; mais, je ne suis pas assez hypocrite pour cacher mes vices! Le rire, le mal, l'orgueil, la folie, paraitront, tour à tour, entre la sensibilité et l'amour de la justice, et serviront d'exemple à la stupéfaction humaine; chacun s'y reconnaitra, non pas tel qu'il devrait être, mais tel qu'il est.

We blunt our own conscience, darken our own judgment by self-interest, and rebuke in others the very vices for which we are famous. Each of us carries around a "deep and calm source of delusion, which undermines the whole principle of good."173

And I realize I've been betrayed by the two vices that fiction promised me I'd adore. Sal Paradise held up bottles of booze like a housewife in a detergent commercial. Holden Caulfield reached for his cigarettes like an act of faith. Even Huckleberry Finn tapped on his pipe with relief and satisfaction. If sex turns out to be this bad, I'm never reading again.

I earn a lot of money in England doing voice-overs, especially in documentaries. Turn on the Discovery Channel here, and you'll hear my voice a lot. It subsidizes my vice of acting in the theater.

We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.

Nobody on this earth is perfect. Everybody has their flaws; everybody has their dark secrets and vices.

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

You cannot oppose reasoning to pride, the principal of all the vices, since, by its very nature, the proud man refuses to listen to it.

We can endure neither our vices nor the remedies for them.

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

How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.

I feel like, big city or small town, you can relate to following your parents' footsteps or putting your own dreams on the back burner or vices that we get caught up in - that whole cycle. That's not just a small-town thing. That's a life thing.

I know no man who feels deeper disgust than I do at the ambition, avarice, and profligacy of the priesthood, as well because every one of these vices is odious in itself, as because each of them separately and all of them together are utterly abhorrent in men making profession of a life dedicated to God.

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

What is public history but a register of the successes and disappointments, the vices, the follies and the quarrels of those who engage in contention for power.

Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence.

A lot of vices that I've had over the years were always to make up for some sort of character deficiency, one of them being shyness.

Human depravity originates in the vices of political constitution.

I am a technological activist. I have a political agenda. I am in favor of basic human rights: to free speech, to use any information and technology, to purchase and use recreational drugs, to enjoy and purchase so-called 'vices', to be free of intruders, and to privacy.

Right now, I'm very healthy. I have no vices left. Except sugary breakfast cereal. And absinthe, of course.

Vices are often habits rather than passions.

I was so happy when they cast me in Chocolat, because it's one of my vices.

I want to tell all the dreamers out there that they should stay away from vices if they want to succeed; that they need training, guidance, and support.