Quotes About Vice

The difference between weakness and wickedness is much less than people suppose; and the consequences are nearly always the same.

It [gaming] is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief.

There is so much good in the worst of us and so much bad in the best of us, that it's rather hard to tell which of us ought to reform the rest of us.

Gossip is vice enjoyed vicariously - the sweet, subtle satisfaction without the risk.

Hypocrisy is the homage which vice pays to virtue.

Hypocrisy is the homage which vice renders to virtue.

I hate purity, I hate goodness! I don't want virtue to exist anywhere. I want everyone to be corrupt to the bones.

The opposite of love? Vice. Temptation. The negative influences that we have. The bad energy that comes around us and makes us do certain things. To me, it's always been a war between the two.

Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.

There was only one virtue, pugnacity; only one vice, pacifism. That is an essential condition of war.

It was said of Dante that he always had time for lechery.

Though religious houses had long had a reputation for being both prisons and hotbeds of vice, they had always served as homes for the many surplus, unmarried, dowerless women who, lacking families to support them, would otherwise have lived out their lives in lonely, hopeless poverty.

To be wicked is never excusable, but there is some merit in knowing that you are; the most irreparable of vices is to do evil from stupidity.

Doubt, or the absence of faith and naivete, is a vice peculiar to this age, for no one is obedient nowadays; and naivete, which means the dominance of temperament in the manner, is a gift from God, possessed by very few.

The one vice beyond redemption is to do bad things out of stupidity.

No hay excusa para la maldad; pero el que es malo, si lo sabe, tiene algún mérito; el vicio más irreparable es el de hacer el mal por tontería.

On n'est jamais excusable d'être méchant, mais il y a quelque mérite à savoir qu'on l'est; et le plus irréparable des vices est de faire le mal par bêtise.

Tolerance is a virtue, but tolerance coupled with passivity is a vice.

One who imitates what is bad always goes beyond his model; while one who imitates what is good always comes up short of it.

all mystical experience is coincidence; and vice versa, of course.

Lebanese, like chain smokers and heavy drinkers, are always trying to thrust their vice on others.

Who was it who said that every virtue contains its corresponding vice? C.S. Lewis? Virginia Woolf? You forget. But it has always worried you that what the virtue of wit contained was the vice of scorn.

The problem with a lot of people is that what they think is a virtue is actually a vice in disguise. It's much easier to convince yourself that you're reasonable and civilised, than soft and weak, isn't it?

In those days the worst vice in England was pride, I guess—the worst vice of all, because folks thought it was a virtue.