Vice Quotes - page 2

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. (Michel de Montaigne)
Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues. View quote
Franz Kafka
As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue. View quote
Albert Einstein
It has since been agreed that speeches given in English will be translated into French and vice versa, and even into German and Italian when necessary. No doubt translations into Esperanto will also soon be in demand. View quote
Fredrik Bajer
In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice. View quote
Evelyn Waugh
Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can pursue it needs an unceasing vigilance and a rare detachment of spirit. It cannot, like adultery or gluttony, be practiced at spare moments it is a whole-time job. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
Vice itself lost half its evil by losing all its grossness. View quote
Edmund Burke
If he really thinks there is no distinction between vice and virtue, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure, only death can stop it. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
Money is the source of the greatest vice, & that Nation which is most rich, is most wicked. (Frances Burney)
Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. Moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue. View quote
Barry Goldwater
The sight of a drunkard is a better sermon against that vice than the best that was ever preached on that subject. View quote
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice. View quote
Bertrand Russell
Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue. View quote
David Hume
Ambition is a vice which often puts men upon doing the meanest offices so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping. View quote
Jonathan Swift
I find that the best virtue I have has in it some tincture of vice. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa. View quote
Eugène Ionesco
More people are flattered into virtue than bullied out of vice. View quote
Robert Smith Surtees
Avarice is the vice of declining years. View quote
George Bancroft
Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want. (Voltaire)
I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall into this vice. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience. View quote
Adam Smith
When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa. View quote
Honoré de Balzac
Our beliefs create the kind of world we believe in. We project our feelings, thoughts and attitudes onto the world. I can create a different world by changing my belief about the world. Our inner state creates the outer and not vice versa. View quote
John Bradshaw