Quotes About Vice

The French thinker Francois de La Rochefoucauld proclaimed: "Hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue."7 If the Rule of Law sometimes produces hypocrisy, at least we know what counts as vice and what counts as virtue.

The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it.

A man given to vice is always an idealist.

Vice is perhaps less dangerous to us than a certain staleness. There is softening of the brain. Softening of the heart is worse.

He who imitates what is evil always goes beyond the example that is set; on the contrary, he who imitates what is good always falls short.

The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.

A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.

Men whose trade is rat-catching, love to catch rats; the bug destroyer seizes on his bug with delight; and the suppressor is gratified by finding his vice.

It is doubtless a vice to turn one's eyes inward too much, but I am my own comedy and tragedy.

Vice Is nice But a little virtue Won't hurt you.

What maintains one vice would bring up two children.

Vice goes a long way tow'rd makin' life bearable. A little vice now an' thin is relished by th' best iv men.

When I religiously confess myself to myself, I find that the best virtue I have has in it some tincture of vice.

One big vice in a man is apt to keep out a great many smaller ones.

Vice is as much a part of human nature as folly, and pornography may be as necessary to vent vice as satire is to vent folly.

He who hates vice hates men.

Nurse one vice in your bosom. Give it the attention it deserves and let your virtues spring up modestly around it. Then you'll have the miser who's no liar; and the drunkard who's the benefactor of a whole city.

It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable grounds.

I prefer an accommodation vice to an obstinate virtue.

Wickedness is weakness.

Svaka istinska, velika strast traži samo?u i bezimenost. ?ovek koji služi svojoj strasti želi da ostane nevi?en i neznan, nasamo sa predmetom svoje strasti, i o svemu drugom voli i ume više i bolje da govori nego o tome što je glavni predmet njegovih misli i želja. ?ak i porok ima svoj stid i svoje obzire, iako naopake i neobi?ne.

Black coffee's a lot like whiskey, you know? All devil and no trimmin's. Always liked my sins pure and take it as it comes.

Prostitution and corruption are two things that mankind has had to live with for so long.

Vice foments war; it is virtue which actually fights. If there were no virtue, we would live in peace forever.