Quotes About Vice

People hate to see their vices depicted, but vice is terrible and it should be depicted.

The wise pleasure seeker, having realised they are "different degrees of desire" and never desirable, gives up both Virtue and Vice and becomes a Kiaist. Riding the Shark of his desire he crosses the ocean of the dual principle and engages himself in self-love.

After all, there are "good" behaviors and "bad" behaviors—are they really equivalent?

Look well that you unto no vice assent, lest you be damned for your evil intent. For she who does so is a traitor, certainly. And take heed of what I shall say: of all the treasons, the greatest wickedness is the betrayal of innocence.

Now let us touch on the vice of Flattery, which comes not gladly from the heart, but from fear or greed. Flattery is generally insincere praise. Flatterers be the Devil's nurses, who nourish his children with the milk of adulation.

Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.

The conduct that issues from a moral conflict has often so close resemblance to vice that the distinction escapes all outward judgments founded on a mere comparison of actions. -Book 6, chapter 9

Remove prostitutes from human affairs, and you will destroy everything with lust.

The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself

Where secrecy or mystery begins, vice or roguery is not far off.

I am a great friend to public amusements; for they keep people from vice.

A am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice.

The vicious count their years; virtuous, their acts.

Most vices may be committed very genteelly: a man may debauch his friend's wife genteelly: he may cheat at cards genteelly.

We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke strops our vice.

Rien ne m'explique : mes vices et mes vertus n'y suffisent absolument pas ; mon bonheur le fait davantage.

La crudeltà è un lusso da oziosi, come le droghe e le camicie di seta.

Mercy is a vice, a pretension to powers we do not have. Those who give mercy commit an unpardonable offense to the victim. And that is not our duty here on earth.

Babbling may be a weakness, but to my thinking mystery is a vice.

Dr Gwynne was the Deus ex machina who was to come down upon the Barchester stage, and bring about deliverance from these terrible evils. But how can melodramatic dénouements be properly brought about, how can vice and Mr Slope be punished, and virtue and the archdeacon be rewarded, while the avenging god is laid up with the gout?

Virtue lies in our power, and similarly so does vice; because where it is in our power to act, it is also in our power not to act...

habits of virtue and vice are caused by acts

Comedy, as we said, is an imitation of people of a lower sort, though not in respect to every vice; rather, what is ridiculous is part of what is ugly.