Quotes About Vice

A un borracho se le puede hablar -me decía una vez- y hasta dice cosas, pero ¿quien resiste la conversación de un jugador o un mujeriego? No hay por debajo de ella sino la de un aficionado a toros, colmo y copete de la estupidez.

You must come to terms with your wholeself. the wholeness which exceeds all our virtue and all our vice.

Common sense was not as common as the Deity might wish for. Indeed, not even the angelic choirs were entirely free of a certain vice known as silliness.

People created chaos, not places, and they were damned good at it no matter where they lived. And when this glittering gem of a city teamed up with the world's oldest profession, fantasy piled atop fantasy; it could convince anyone that impulse was a virtue, not a vice.

My only aversion to vice, is the price.

Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty.

Little by little, the pimps have taken over the world. They don't do anything, they don't make anything - they just stand there and take their cut.

Vice is a dreary business. And virtue is not a lot of fun, either.

Many saints were made out of passionate sinners—the angry, the hating, the lustful, the cynical; but none were ever made out of the slothful.

A habit is a stable disposition to act in a certain way, good or evil. Virtues are good habits; vices are bad habits.

Hypocrisy, it is said, is "the tribute that vice pays to virtue.

hypocrisy is the tribute that vice pays to virtue

He had very few dealings with the government. That was neither a virtue nor a vice; it was simply good luck.

There is evil in the best of us, of course; but perhaps just a little bit more in the worst of us.

And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are.

You are a cesspit of moral filth.

We return you to the Vice President, who is now addressing the National Sword Swallowers Association. -the psychotics, the sob sisters, the skin merchants, the saboteurs, the self-styled Sapphos, the self-styled Swinburners, the swine, the satyrs, the schizos, the sodomists, the sissies, the screamers, the screwy, the scum, the self-congratulatory self-congratulators, the sensationalists, the snakes in the grass, the sex fiends, the shiftless, the shines, the shaggy, the sickly, the syphilitic-

Living in the modern age, death for virtue is the wage. So it seems in darker hours. Evil wins, kindness cowers. Ruled by violence and vice we all stand upon thin ice. Are we brave or are we mice, here upon such thin, thin ice? Dare we linger, dare we skate? Dare we laugh or celebrate, knowing we may strain the ice? Preserve the ice at any price?

But how explain the perennial vigor of envy? — a vice that brings nothing in!

Remember this adage—complicity in vice is the real Holy Alliance* in Paris. Interests always diverge in the end but the corrupt always understand each other.

L'un des malheurs auxquels sont soumises les grandes intelligences, c'est de comprendre forcément toutes choses, les vices aussi bien que les vertus.

A life of debauch and the abuse of liquors debased, day by day, a countenance that was once so handsome. The veins of the face were swollen with blood, the features became coarse, the eyes lost their lashes and grew hard and dry. No longer careful of his person, Philippe exhaled the miasmas of a tavern and the smell of muddy boots, which, to an observer, stamped him with debauchery.

Everything can be excused and justified in an age which has transformed vice into virtue and virtue into vice.

Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.