Quotes About Vice

Character teaches above our wills. Men imagine that they communicate their virtue or vice only by overt actions, and do not see that virtue or vice emit a breath every moment.

If he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons. Samuel Johnson The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons. Ralph Waldo Emerson

men do love sin, Will, oh how they love it, never doubt, in all shapes, sizes, colors, and smells.

He became a waif and stray, austerely, from conviction, as others do through drink, from vice, from some weakness of character — with deliberation, as others do in despair. This, stripped

Ambition is a path, not a destination, and it is essentially the same path for everybody. No matter what the goal is, the path leads through Pilgrim's Progress regions of motivation, hard work, persistence, stubbornness, and resilience under disappointment. Unconsidered, merely indulged, ambition becomes a vice; it can turn a man into a machine that knows nothing but how to run. Considered, it can be something else - pathway to the stars, maybe.

Vous savez que l'amour et le vice sont le meilleur et le pire moteur de l'humanité – bien qu'ils soient souvent indissociables.

The vice of capitalism is that it stands for the unequal sharing of blessings; whereas the virtue of socialism is that it stands for the equal sharing of misery.

It is significant ..... that the English regard slackness as a vice. We, on the other hand, should vastly prefer it to tension. Is there not too much tension in the world at present, and might it not be better if more people were slackers?

You've chosen a life of vice, and have been consistent and reliable and thorough and successful in carrying it out.

Wonderful what a little nip'll do in case of need, and the less you're used to it the more good it does you.

G. K. Chesterton says,' put in Wimsey, 'that most people with a very well-defined style write at times what looks like bad parodies of themselves. He mentions Swinburne, for instance – that bit about "From the lilies and languors of virtue to the raptures and roses of vice.

Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human.

There is much evil in the world.

But even then you have to reckon with a criminal's chief vice.' 'What is that?' ' Conceit. A criminal never believes that his crime can fail.

No vice is more irksome than that of voicing one's virtues

Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.

The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by wine.

Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.

When America liked it? When Cuba was racially segregated? When education was only available to a privileged few? When the poor died of easily curable ailments? When vice was rampant? Had they preferred Batista's mafia-infested Cuba? Or the Cuba between the state that Teddy Roosevelt preened to subjugate and Franklin Delano Roosevelt worked to keep?

gs, inquit, bonae ex mals mribus procreantur. (Macrobius

Virtue that wavers is not virtue, but vice revolted from itself, and after a while returning. The actions of just and pious men do not darken in their middle course.

Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living.

A nice state of affairs when a man has to indulge his vices by proxy.

Party spirit enlists a man's virtues in the cause of his vices.