Quotes About Vice

A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure.

The only action on the street was booze and hot cunt.

And lash the vice and follies of the age.

There are three all-powerful evils: lust, anger and greed.

These are the Seven Deadly Sins: Avarice, Envy, Pride, Gluttony, Lust, Anger, Sloth. These are the seven deadly sins: venality, paranoia, insecurity, excess, carnality, contempt, boredom.

Intemperance is a hydra with a hundred heads. She never stalks abroad unaccompanied with impurity, anger, and the most infamous profligacies.

But in these modern times it may be decidedly asserted as a fact, that vice, in accomplishing the vast majority of its seductions, uses no disguise at all; appears impudently in its naked deformity; and, instead of horrifying all beholders, in accordance with the prediction of the classical satirist, absolutely attracts a much more numerous congregation of worshippers than has ever yet been brought together by the divinest beauties that virtue can display for the allurement of mankind.

It costs as much to support a vice as it does to support a family.

Probably every vice was once a virtue … Man's sins may be the relics of his rise rather than the stigmata of his fall.

Probably every vice was once a virtue—i.e., a quality making for the survival of the individual, the family, or the group. Man's sins may be the relics of his rise rather than the stigmata of his fall.

no man can cause more grief than the one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancesters.

Jobbery is the vice of plutocracy, and

The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.

All of which goes to prove that there is so much good in the worst of us and so much bad in the best of us that it ill behooves any of us to talk about the rest of us.

Do not consider any vice as trivial, and therefore practise it; do not consider any virtue as unimportant, and therefore neglect it.

Practice no vice because it's trivial... Neglect no virtue because it's so.

Meditating regularly is like being fertilized. Throw the fertilizer on the ground and whatever is in the ground - either good or bad seeds - will grow. Everything, whether vice or virtue, is magnified. Unless a person in the spiritual path practices character-building, (s)he may tend to become worse.

The only lesson I got pounded into me was about man's limitless capacity for vice - that and the fact that social distinctions vanish in a concentration camp. I once believed that man was different from other animals, but Yodok showed me that reality doesn't support this opinion.

Tyler had been the vice presidential nominee of the southern Whigs in 1836, carrying four states. Now, to balance the ticket with a states' rights supporter and Clay man, he was the vice presidential nominee of the national party.

Whether as a moral kink or a crooked twist given to the will, vice has often the appearance of a curvature for the soul.

Society is immoral and immortal; it can afford to commit any kind of folly, and indulge in any sort of vice; it cannot be killed, and the fragments that survive can always laugh at the dead.

We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke strops our vice.

We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke straps our vice.

The peculiarity of ill-temper is that it is the vice of the virtuous. It is often the one blot on an otherwise noble character. You know men who are all but perfect, and women who would be entirely perfect, but for an easily ruffled, quick-tempered, or "touchy" disposition. This compatibility of ill-temper with high moral character is one of the strangest and saddest problems of ethics.