Quotes About Vice

The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.

But sometimes virtue starves, while vice is fed." / What then? Is the reward of virtue bread?

Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgment and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.

All the things I really like to do are either illegal, immoral, or fattening.

This was a Golden Age, a time of high adventure, rich living and hard dying... but nobody thought so. This was a future of fortune and theft, pillage and rapine, culture and vice... but nobody admitted it. This was an age of extremes, a fascinating century of freaks... but nobody loved it.

"Become corrupt, corrupt, and you will cease to suffer!" This has been the cry of all cities to man...

There are only two real ways to get ahead today - sell liquor or drink it.

Religion is a means of exploitation employed by the strong against the weak; religion is a cloak of ambition, injustice and vice.

The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.

I have attended church regularly since I was less than a week old. I've listened to sermons about virtue, sermons against vice. I have heard about money, time management, tithing, abstinence, and generosity. I've listened to thousands of sermons. But I could count on one hand the number of sermons that were a simple proclamation of the gospel of Christ.

Since I don't smoke or drink or swear unconvincingly, symmetry is my only vice.

religion either produces the very best people or the very worst.

GândeÈ™te-te la chestia asta: poate c? omul, cu cât e mai nebun, cu atât poate deveni mai puternic. Vezi exemplul lui Hitler. Viciul d? avânt minÈ›ii, nu-i aÈ™a? Hran? pentru cuget?ri viitoare.

The characteristic virtue of Englishmen is power of sustained practical activity and their characteristic vice a reluctance to test the quality of that activity by reference to principles.

But in all the annals of human vice, no power is as destructive or demonic as perverted sincerity

If we should cease to be generous and charitable because another is sordid and ungrateful, it would be much in the power of vice to extinguish Christian virtues.

There is no stronger test of a person's character than power and authority, exciting as they do every passion, and discovering every latent vice.

He who sins easily, sins less. The very power Renders less vigorous the roots of evil.

All Excess is ill: But Drunkenness is of the worst Sort.

Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied;And vice sometime's by action dignified.

For in the fatness of these pursy timesVirtue itself of vice must pardon beg.

That reverend vice, that gray iniquity, that father ruffian, that vanity in years.

I hate ingratitude more in a manThan lying, vainness, babbling drunkenness,Or any taint of vice whose strong corruptionInhabits our frail blood.

There is no vice so simple but assumesSome mark of virtue on his outward parts.