Quotes About Vice

Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!

And simple truth miscall'd simplicity,And captive good attending captain ill.

All sin tends to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is what is called damnation.

A vice in common can be the ground of a friendship but not a virtue in common. X and Y may be friends because they are both drunkards or womanizers but, if they are both sober and chaste, they are friends for some other reason.

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. – Alexander Pope

O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! That we should, with joy, pleasance, revel, and applause, transform ourselves into beasts.

What is pity but the vice of kindness.

Unfortunately, the very characteristic that led him to embody the goodness that surrounded him also led him to embrace evil when he met it.

By vice, dissipation, and extravagance, [the nobility] have been driven to the most despicable, and often the most atrocious actions, for which persons in a humble line would be exemplarily punished, while men and women of rank claim the privilege of being infamous.

Change in a triceThe lilies and languors of virtueFor the raptures and roses of vice.

A virtuous person is better then virtue and a vicious person is worse than vice.

A virtuous person is better than virtue and a vicious person is worse than vice.

virtude da vossa geração é a atividade intelectual; seu vício é a indiferença moral.

According to the Stoics, all vice was resolvable into folly: according to the Christian principle, it is all the effect of weakness.

Coffee and cigarettes, that's one of my weaknesses.

Americans were told repeatedly by President Bush and Vice President Cheney that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. None were ever found.

There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.

I have come to believe that the defining moments of most lives are not acts of courage or greatness, rather they are the simple acts: expressions of virtue or vice that are tossed carelessly like seeds from a farmer's hand, leaving their fruits to be revealed at a future date.

In the words of Morelly, the author of the influential treatise Le Code de la Nature, published in 1755: The only vice which I know in the universe is avarice; all the others, whatever name one gives them, are merely forms, degrees of it. . . . Analyze vanity, conceit, pride, ambition, deceitfulness, hypocrisy, villainy; break down the majority of our sophisticated virtues themselves, [they] all dissolve in this subtle and pernicious element, the desire to possess.

Vice does not lose its character by becoming fashionable.

In religion, faith is a virtue. In science, faith is a vice.

Accentuated plainness and accentuated vice ought to bring about harmony. Beauty lies in harmony, in style, whether it be the harmony of ugliness or beauty, vice or virtue.

In the ancient world, this was understood by the Christians, our only (if very imperfect) predecessors: Humility is a virtue, pride a vice; We comes from God, I from the Devil.

To Virtue's humblest son let none prefer Vice, tho' descended from the Conqueror.