Quotes About Vice

It is ourselves we have to fear. Prejudice is the real robber, and vice the real murderer.

Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.

We must never fear robbers or murderers. They are dangers from outside, small dangers. It is ourselves we have to fear. Prejudice is the real robber, and vice the real murderer. Why should we be troubled by a threat to our person or our pocket? What we have to beware of is the threat to our souls.

liquor and loquacity are your besetting weaknesses.

No vice exists which does not pretend to be more or less like some virtue, and which does not take advantage of this assumed resemblance.

Hypocrisy is the homage of vice to virtue.

Do you think Charlotte will let me handle the investigation?" "Do you think you can be trusted in Downworld? The gaming hells, the dens of magical vice, the women of loose morals..." Will smiled the way Lucifer might have smiled, moments before he fell from heaven. "Would tomorrow be to early to start looking, do you think? Jem sighed. 'Do what you like, William. You always do.

You think they are kind, that the Nephilim are kind, because they are good, but goodness is not kindness, and there is nothing crueler than virtue.

Cigarettes and coffee: an alcoholic's best friend!

A sober man may become a drunkard through being a coward. A brave man may become a coward through being a drunkard.

A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.

it is obvious that all vices have a grievous effect on those who indulge them and often on others too. But I believe that the one which can transport us with the most unbridled haste into danger is anger. This is nothing other than a sudden thoughtless impulse, provoked by some perceived offence, which banishes reason and clouds the eyes of the mind, rousing the soul to blazing fury.

Nothing holds love together like shared vice or collusive perversion.

Why should there be some sort of virtue always attributed to a frank admission of vice?

Kenneth Tynan: What is your major vice? Orson Welles: Accidia — the medieval Latin word for melancholy, and sloth. I don't give way to it for long, but it still comes lurching at me out of the shadows.

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

Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed. People talk sometimes of secret vices. There are no such things. If a wretched man has a vice, it shows itself in the lines of his mouth, the droop of his eyelids, the moulding of his hands even.

The young woman quoted Turgenev, If you want to annoy an opponent thoroughly or even harm him, you reproach him with every defect or vice you are conscious of in yourself.

UNTIL thought is linked with purpose there is no intelligent accomplishment. With the majority the bark of thought is allowed to drift upon the ocean of life. Aimlessness is a vice, and such drifting must not continue for him who would steer clear of catastrophe and destruction. They

Damn what you like, Pieterzoon. But don't damn liquor. It's the stuff of life!

Greed is the seed of corruptionas much as virtue is the seed of justice.Wisdom is the seed of successas much as vice is the seed of destruction.

I want all hellions to quit puffing that hell fume in God's clean air.

My weakness for beautiful women is my most expensive vice, I still believe in matrimony, but I can't afford another try.

The war was a mirror; it reflected man's every virtue and every vice, and if you looked closely, like an artist at his drawings, it showed up both with unusual clarity.