Vice Quotes

Hypocrisy is the homage which vice pays to virtue. (François de La Rochefoucauld)
Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need. View quote
Voltaire
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries. View quote
Winston Churchill
The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy. View quote
William Hazlitt
I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue. View quote
Barry Goldwater
Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue. View quote
Francis Bacon
Good taste is the worst vice ever invented. View quote
Edith Sitwell
57: It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa. View quote
Alan Perlis
Ambition is not a vice of little people. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much. View quote
Peter Ustinov
Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue. (Molière)
Moderation in temper, is always a virtue; but moderation in principle, is a species of vice. View quote
Thomas Paine
There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion. View quote
William Hazlitt
Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself. View quote
Henry Ward Beecher
But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint. View quote
Edmund Burke
A am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honoris a private station. View quote
Joseph Addison
Gluttony is not a secret vice. View quote
Orson Welles
What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic. View quote
Bertrand Russell
Vice knows that she is ugly, so she puts on her mask. (Benjamin Franklin)
Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice. View quote
Rutherford B. Hayes
Because Impudence is a Vice, it does not follow that Modesty is a Virtue; it is built upon Shame, a Passion in our Nature, and may be either Good or Bad according to the Actions perform'd from that Motive. View quote
Bernard Mandeville
Principles You can't say A is made of B or vice versa. All mass is interaction. View quote
Richard Feynman
The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose. View quote
William Blake