Top Vices Quotes Collection

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Image of A. J. P. Taylor
Manchester has everything but good looks..., the only place in England which escapes our characteristic vice of snobbery.
- A. J. P. Taylor
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Image of Humphrey Bogart
The problem with this world is, everyone in it is 3 drinks behind.
- Humphrey Bogart
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Image of Julian Baggini
The greatest moral failing is to condemn something as a moral failing: no vice is worse than being judgmental.
- Julian Baggini
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Image of Alexander Pope
Sometimes virtue starves while vice is fed.
- Alexander Pope
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Image of Martial
Spare the person but lash the vice.
- Martial
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Image of Osamu Dazai
Virtue and vice are concepts invented by human beings, words for a morality which human beings arbitrarily devised.
- Osamu Dazai
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Image of Slash
If it had been any different, if I had been born just one minute later, or been in the wrong pace at the right time or vice versa, the life that I've lived and come to love would not exist. And that is a situation that I would not want to consider in the slightest.
- Slash
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Image of Jean Rostand
In our ideals we unwittingly reveal our vices.
- Jean Rostand
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Image of Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Our virtues, as well as our vices, are often scourges for our own backs.
- Mary Elizabeth Braddon
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Image of John Philip Sousa
I forsee a marked deterioration in American musicand a host of other injuries to music in its artistic manifestations, by virtue—or rather by vice—of the multiplication of the various music-reproducing machines
- John Philip Sousa
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Image of Kate Douglas Wiggin
You may have noted the fact that it is a person's virtues as often as his vices that make him difficult to live with.
- Kate Douglas Wiggin
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Image of Bergen Evans
The mere abhorrence of vice is not a virtue at all.
- Bergen Evans
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Image of Carmen Boullosa
In Catholicism, you learn to worship a superior god that creates, who organizes and creates. And when you do novels, you have this illusion that you are following the model of the creator, that you are playing the creator who has to organize that. It is a vice and a sin, and I like to sin. I'm a vicious person.
- Carmen Boullosa
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Image of John Nance Garner
The Vice Presidency isn't worth a pitcher of warm spit.
- John Nance Garner
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Image of Benjamin Haydon
Beware of the beginnings of vice. Do not delude yourself with the belief that it can be argued against in the presence of the exciting cause. Nothing but actual flight can save you.
- Benjamin Haydon
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Image of Dominique Bouhours
There are some persons on whom virtue sits almost as ungraciously as vice.
- Dominique Bouhours
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Image of Jean Baptiste Massillon
Slander is perhaps the only vice which no circumstance can palliate, as well as being one which we are most ingenious in concealing from ourselves.
- Jean Baptiste Massillon
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Image of Thomas Browne
To me avarice seems not so much a vice as a deplorable piece of madness.
- Thomas Browne
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Image of Louis XVI of France
We must define flattery and praise; they are distinct. Trajan was encouraged to virtue by the panegyric Pliny; Tiberius became obstinate in vice from the flattery of his senators.
- Louis XVI of France
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Image of William Edward Hartpole Lecky
There have certainly been many periods in history when virtue was more rare than under the Caesars; but there has probably never been a period when vice was more extravagant or uncontrolled.
- William Edward Hartpole Lecky
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Image of G. B. Caird
But in all the annals of human vice, no power is as destructive or demonic as perverted sincerity
- G. B. Caird
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Image of Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
Society punishes not the vices of its members, but their detection.
- Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
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Image of Kevin Keegan
Luis Figo is totally different to David Beckham, and vice versa.
- Kevin Keegan
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Image of Mikhail Bulgakov
Cowardice is the most terrible of vices.
- Mikhail Bulgakov
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Image of Robin Skelton
A vice is merely a pleasure to which somebody has objected.
- Robin Skelton
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Image of R. H. Tawney
Virtues are often conquered by vices, but their rout is most complete when it is inflicted by other virtues, more militant, more efficient, or more congenial.
- R. H. Tawney
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Image of Julien Offray de La Mettrie
It is convention and arbitrary rewards which make all the merit and demerit of what we call vice and virtue.
- Julien Offray de La Mettrie
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Image of Margo St. James
If they want to know if prostitutes are positive, they should test the Vice cops.
- Margo St. James
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Image of John Baldessari
Photos should suggest a word(s) and vice versa. They should be equal and interchangeable.
- John Baldessari
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Image of Victor Buono
My only aversion to vice, is the price.
- Victor Buono
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Image of J. A. Spender
Hostility to youth is the worst vice of the middle-aged.
- J. A. Spender
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Image of James Richardson
Any virtue systematically applied becomes a vice. Morality is attention, not system.
- James Richardson
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Image of Mason Cooley
Virtue sometimes pretends. Vice is always sincere.
- Mason Cooley
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Image of John Florio
Poverty is no vice, but an inconvenience.
- John Florio
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Image of Iwan Bloch
The gross debaucheries and atrocious cruelties are covered with a resplendent mental veil because of the systematic exposition of the philosophic principles in all fields of vice. Its justification by logical method as well as by precepts and examples only makes vice more horrible in effect, both for degenerate and normal beings
- Iwan Bloch
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Image of William Dunbar
Neither our vices nor our virtues further the poem.
- William Dunbar
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Image of Margaret Drabble
How unjust life is, to make physical charm so immediately apparent or absent, when one can get away with vices untold for ever.
- Margaret Drabble
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Image of John William Fletcher
Vice gets more in this vicious world than piety.
- John William Fletcher
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Image of Epictetus
If someone speaks badly of you, do not defend yourself against the accusations, but reply; "you obviously don't know about my other vices, otherwise you would have mentioned these as well
- Epictetus
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Image of Menzies Campbell
It can fairly be said of John Smith that he had all the virtues of a Scottish presbyterian, but none of the vices.
- Menzies Campbell
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Image of Leonard Wibberley
A Yea might turn in to a Nae and vice versa if a sufficient quantity of wordage was applied. In other talk you argument out until you get the answer you want.
- Leonard Wibberley
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Image of Paul Simon
When I was a young reporter, the great vice among journalists was whiskey. Today, it's cynicism.
- Paul Simon
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Image of C. F. W. Walther
Inactivity is the beginning of all vice.
- C. F. W. Walther
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Image of Kenneth Minogue
Moral vices prosper by dressing themselves as virtues.
- Kenneth Minogue
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Image of Kenneth Grahame
It is the restrictions placed on vice by our social code which makes its pursuit so peculiarly agreeable.
- Kenneth Grahame
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Image of Hank Azaria
When you become deeply involved with someone, their problems become yours, and vice versa. It's family.
- Hank Azaria
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Image of Diane Ackerman
The well of nature is full today. Time to go outside and take a drink.
- Diane Ackerman
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Image of Sam Heughan
[Vice chairman of Barbour] Helen [Barbour] and I realized that I come from the same village that her ancestor John Barbour came from, who created Barbour. It just seemed like such a great connection.
- Sam Heughan
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Image of Elfriede Jelinek
Vice is basically the love of failure.
- Elfriede Jelinek
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Image of Juvenal
Vice deceives us when dressed in the garb of virtue.
- Juvenal
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