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Quotes About Vice

The greedy man is he who habitually eats too much, knowing that he is injuring his bodily health thereby, and this is a vice to which not the gourmet but the gourmand is a slave.
~ E. F. Benson
All is extremely genteel; and there is almost as much repose as in the golden saloons of the contiguous palaces. At any rate, if there be as much vice, there is as little crime.
~ Isaac D'Israeli
My grandmother had a Miss Margaret's School of Dance to teach tap and ballet to kids, but I never studied it. I was raised a Mormon and they're dancing fools. It's the only vice they have - dancing.
~ Michelle Shocked
By 1980, when I came out of prison, The Sun did a campaign to stop putting vice girls in prison. We've talked about it ever since and nothing has been done about it.
~ Cynthia Payne
Mom was the greatest influence of my childhood. She wanted to save me from the vice, lust, and drinking that was all about me.
~ Ethel Waters
What a pity it is that we have no amusements in England but vice and religion!
~ Sydney Smith
To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.
~ Ouida
Food is my thing, I do not smoke or drink, so food is my vice.
~ Kathy Griffin
The tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice, in tempting and deceiving, in perjury and injustice.
~ Joseph Butler
My secret vice is Sudoku puzzles. Can't stop playing them. My parents are accountants. I blame them entirely.
~ Lisa Gardner
To all the rest of his Absurdities, (for vice is always unreasonable,) he adds one more, who expects that Vertue from another which he won't practise himself.
~ Mary Astell
People think because 'Vice' is irreverent and because we're crazy, we're stunt journalists. You know what? I don't actually care.
~ Shane Smith
In every one of the 'Squickerwonker' books, we will explore a new Squickerwonker character and their vice and how their vice generally leads to their undoing.
~ Evangeline Lilly
I was not a gigantic fan of 'The A-Team' as a kid. I was a huge 'Miami Vice' fan. So for me, not necessarily to say that I put a 'Miami Vice'ish spin on 'The A-Team,' but for me, what I was most intrigued by was this notion of these four guys, these four kind of special operators.
~ Joe Carnahan
We write in ways that, we generally hope, reflect real life, or at least look familiar to humans. And in life, recurring themes are a recurring theme. We never quite conquer a pet vice or a relationship pattern or a communication habit. We're haunted by our particular demons.
~ Sara Zarr
For me, growing up, I felt like there was something fatally and tragically flawed in my nature and that it was my duty to try to avoid falling for that vice.
~ Shyam Selvadurai
I even played a part in 'Miami Vice.'
~ Dennis Farina
In midlife, I feel that my tendency to acquire books is rather like someone smoking two packs a day: it's a terrible vice that I wish I could shuck.
~ Claire Messud
'Vice News' is cool because they'll just send your local barista to go talk to the head of ISIS.
~ Hasan Minhaj
I'm a pretty controlled and disciplined person, but my real vice is buying plants and food shopping.
~ Zac Posen
In Vice, I saw all of it in one. I saw a studio. I saw a content creator. I saw an agency. I saw a distributor. We want to learn from them. They're talking to a generation we're struggling to connect to as an industry.
~ Nancy Dubuc
A universal basic income doesn't give people dignity or protect them from boredom and vice.
~ Oren Etzioni
My involvement with Guantanamo began as vice chief of staff.
~ Jack Keane
I don't think Vice and BuzzFeed are legitimate news organizations.
~ Jeff Zucker