Quotes About Vice

Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it.

Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.

Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.

But what is liberty without wisdom and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint. Those who know what virtuous liberty is, cannot bear to see it disgraced by incapable heads, on account of their having high-sounding words in their mouths.

Goodness sold itself, badness flaunted itself about.

The vice minister sets down The Principles of Mechanics and pushes it away, then glances at his palms as though it has made them dirty. He says, "The only place your brother is going, little girl, is into the mines. As soon as he turns fifteen. Same as every other boy in this house.

Virtue humanizes and spiritualizes what is part animal in us. Vice brutalizes what is human and spiritual in us.

Virtue liberates; vice enslaves. A passion for genuine beauty liberates;

Murder and cigarettes. That about summed him up.

There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.

Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.

There are two cardinal human sins from which all others derive: impatience and indolence.

I'm vice chairman of the American Wild Horse Protection Association and honorary chairman of the Wildlife Federation.

Jeff Williams, Apple's senior vice president of operations, has been called 'Tim Cook's Tim Cook' by some.

I think musicians have always been drinking and sharing a good wine. It is, I hate to say this, another form of vice.

I was angry at myself for my inclination to vice. I longed for the day when a state of frenzy would lead my mind to sober pasture, just as it had for Saint Augustine. I longed for the day when the love of one woman would be sacred enough to forget all the rest.

In the kitchens of love, after all, vice is like the pepper in a good sauce; it brings out the flavor, it's indispensable.

Their last remaining pleasure! Their shriveled carcasses contained not one solitary atom that was not absolutely vicious!

dezam?girea, precum toate modele, început? în straturile de vîrf ale societ??ii, a coborît la cele de mai jos, care o È™i uzeaz? complet, È™i c? ast?zi cei care, mai mult decât oricine, se plictisesc la o adic?, se str?duiesc s? ascund? aceast? nefericire a lor, ca pe un viciu."

one could deduce that vice is often the manure of virtue

If it hadn't been for our love affair, most likely Dona Placida would have ended up like so many other human creatures, from which it can be deduced that vice many times is manure for virtue. And that doesn't prevent virtue from being a fragrant and healthy bloom. My conscience agreed and I went to open the door for Virgilia.

Patience is a virtue not a vice.

What is more harmful than any vice? Practical sympathy and pity for all the failures and all the weak : Christianity.

According to Christian teachers, the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride.