Quotes About Vice

Vice is contagious, and there is no trusting the sound and the sick together.

Deceit is the false road to happiness; and all the joys we travel through to vice, like fairy banquets, vanish when we touch them.

I never trust a fighting man who doesn't smoke or drink.

Never trust a man who has not a single redeeming vice.

Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.

The inherent vice of capitalism is the uneven division of blessings, while the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal division of misery.

Love is a virtue; it grows stronger and purer and less selfish by applying it to what it loathes; but theft is a vice involving the slave-idea that one's neighbor is superior to oneself.

A vice utterly at variance with the happiness of him who harbors it, and, as such, condemned by self-love.

Idle men make mischief, especially idle men supplied with ale, whores, and weapons.

The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice. ... So long as men are not trained to withhold judgment in the absence of evidence, they will be led astray by cocksure prophets, and it is likely that their leaders will be either ignorant fanatics or dishonest charlatans. To endure uncertainty is difficult, but so are most of the other virtues.

The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice. [...] To endure uncertainty is difficult, but so are most of the other virtues.

A man that is ashamed of passions that are natural and reasonable is generally proud of those that are shameful and silly.

Man is weak, greedy, craven, lustful, prey to every species of vice and depravity. He will lie, steal, cheat, murder, melt down the very statues of the gods and coin their gold as money for whores. This is man.

Pontiero cogió una silla, la colocó al revés y se sentó a la izquierda, con las manos en el respaldo. Dicanti tomó nota mental de recordarle que dejara de imitar las películas de Humphrey Bogart. El vice ispettore había visto El halcón maltés unas trescientas veces.

Cruelty, like lying, repels instantly and easily because it is 'ugly.' It is a vice that disfigures human characters, not a transgression of a divine or human rule.

Almost wherever Chinese communities went, they were accused of vice, violence and mutiny, of being a secretive, alien, xenophobic community that refused to integrate with Anglo-Saxon society.

Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.

But in the dying world I come from quotation is a national vice. No one would think of making an after-dinner speech without the help of poetry. It used to be the classics, now it's lyric verse.

Money is the source of the greatest vice, and that nation which is most rich, is most wicked.

It seldom happens that a man, though extolled as a saint, is really without blemish; or that another, though reviled as a devil, is really without humanity.

Vice… is a creature of such heejous mien… that th' more ye see it th' betther ye like it.

Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it.

There is nothing like good food, good wine, and a bad girl.

When misguided public opinion honors what is despicable and despises what is honorable, punishes virtue and rewards vice, encourages what is harmful and discourages what is useful, applauds falsehood and smothers truth under indifference or insult, a nation turns it's back on progress and can be restored only by the terrible lessons of catastrophe.