Quotes About Vice

The common people do not judge of vice or virtue by morality or immorality, so much as by the stamp that is set upon it by men of figure.

Absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is, let alone the dullness of it and the pomposities of it.

Surfeit begets insolence, when prosperity comes to a bad man.

There is an eternal conflict between the school-room and the bar-room. The school-room makes men, the bar-room destroys them.

One fact must be familiar to all those who have any experience of human nature - a sincerely religious man is often an exceedingly bad man.

Virtuous and vicious every man must be, few in the extreme, but all in the degree.

Golf - a young man's vice and an old man's penance.

If ridicule were employed to laugh men out of vice and folly, it might be of some use.

A man is fortunate if he encounters living examples of vice, as well as of virtue, to inspire him.

The extremes of vice and virtue are alike detestable, and absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is.

The heart resolves this matter in a trice, "Men only feel the smart, but not the vice.

Vice has more martyrs than virtue; and it often happens that men suffer more to be lost than to be saved.

Every man with his own peculiar vice. His will hardly rock heaven or hell.

Were there no desire there would be no virtue, and because one man desires what another does not, who shall say whether the child of his desire be Vice or Virtue?

Vice incapacitates a man from all public duty; it withers the powers of his under- standing, and makes his mind paralytic.

For that which all men then did virtue call, Is now called vice; and that which vice was hight, Is now hight virtue, and so used of all: Right now is wrong, and wrong that was is right

If vices were profitable, the virtuous man would be the sinner.

When it comes to the point, really bad men are just as rare as really good ones.

Avarice is a cursed vice: offer a man enough gold, and he will part with his own small hoard of food, however great his hunger.

A man must either imitate the vicious or hate them.

Ambition, in a private man is a vice, is in a prince the virtue.

The most glorious exploits do not always furnish us with the clearest discoveries of virtue or vice in men.

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.

Vices and frailties correct each other, like acids and alkalies. If each vicious man had but one vice, I do not know how the world could go on.