Quotes About Vice

The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.

my grandfather laid claim to all the virtues. Vice was the only thing left to me." Clare scowled at him. "The old earl has been dead for four years, and you're a grown man. Find a better excuse, or learn better behavior.

Cei st?pâniÈ›i de un viciu ascuns pot identifica È™i analiza lucid mecanismele interne ale acelui viciu, când îi afecteaz? pe ceilalÈ›i.

An angel's weaknesses are better than a devil's strengths.

Warren Dandridge had insisted that poker was a Christian game: Players who practiced virtue-- learning and respecting the odds, keeping their emotions in check, managing their bankrolls intelligently-- tended to prosper, while those who succumbed to vice-- chasing long shots, letting passion rule reason-- went the way of all unrepentant sinners.

In short, the critic is not an owner, because he still struggles with ideas as with powerful strangers, as the Christian is not the owner of his "bad desires" as long as he has to fight them; for the one who battles against vice, vice exists.

?nsanlar?n kötülükleri ya?ar tunçta, yazar?z erdemlerini suya." - Shakespeare

When I religiously confess myself to myself, I find that the best virtue I have has in it some tincture of vice.

Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.

When men have no vices, she thought, it's very difficult to guess what might make them happy.

Orice om are o panta funest?. A mea duce-n mocirl?. Aici m? goneÅŸte Speranza când se-nr?ieÅŸte ÅŸi-mi arat? chipul ei de brut?. Mocirla e-nfrangerea, e viciul meu. pag 37

That mouth. Smoking was a bad habit, yes. But he looked so good doing it.

customers away. The Palais-Royal has become a veritable den of iniquity,

Without enthusiasm, virtue functions not at all, and vice only poorly.

Good food, good sex, good digestion, good sleep: to these basic animal pleasures, man has added nothing but the good cigarette.

Los grandes canallas tienen algo de héroes y los grandes héroes tienen algo de canallas.

Displaying vice to the mockery of men deals it a great blow. Men put up with admonition but are loath to be mocked. One might be willing to be wicked; one cannot bear to appear foolish.

Deceived on all sides, overwhelmed with injustice, I will fly from an abyss where vice is triumphant, and seek out some small secluded nook on earth, where on may enjoy the freedom of being an honest man.

l'hypocrisie est un vice à la mode, et tous les vices à la mode passent pour vertus.

Betrayed and wronged in everything, I'll flee this bitter world where vice is king, And seek some spot unpeopled and apart Where I'll be free to have an honest heart.

I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.

The most effective way of attacking vice is to expose it to public ridicule. People can put up with rebukes, but they cannot bear being laughed at: they are prepared to be wicked but they dislike appearing ridiculous.

I prefer an accommodating vice to an obstinate virtue.

My hate is general, I detest all men; Some because they are wicked and do evil, Others because they tolerate the wicked, Refusing them the active vigorous scorn Which vice should stimulate in virtuous minds.