Vice Quotes - page 4

It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd. (Henry Miller)
Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues. View quote
Quintilian
That for which all virtue now is sold, and almost every vice- almighty gold. View quote
Ben Jonson
Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate, no despotism can enslave. At home, a friend, abroad, an introduction, in solitude a solace and in society an ornament. It chastens vice, it guides virtue, it gives at once grace and government to genius. Without it, what is man A splendid slave, a reasoning savage. View quote
Joseph Addison
A year ago, my approval rating was in the 30s, my nominee for the supreme court had just withdrawn, and my vice president had shot someone. Ah, those were the good old days. View quote
George W. Bush
Then the soul, freed from vice, purged by studies of true philosophy, versed in spiritual life, and practised in matters of the intellect, devoted to the contemplation of her own substance, as if awakened from deepest sleep, opens those eyes which all possess but few use, and sees in herself a ray of that light which is the true image of the angelic beauty communicated to her, and of which she then communicates a faint shadow to the body. View quote
Baldassare Castiglione
Vice does not lose its character by becoming fashionable. View quote
John Wesley
No one in Germany laughs at vice, nor do they call it the fashion to corrupt and to be corrupted. View quote
Tacitus
Gambling is not a vice, it is an expression of our humanness. We gamble. Some do it at the gaming table, some do not. You play, you win, you play, you lose, you play. View quote
Jeanette Winterson
I was as afraid as the next man in my time and maybe more so. But with the years, fear had come to be regarded as a form of stupidity to be classed with overdrafts, acquiring a venereal disease or eating candies. Fear is a child's vice and while I loved to feel it approach, as one does with any vice, it was not for grown men and the only thing to be afraid of was the presence of true and imminent danger in a form that you should be aware of and not be a fool if you were responsible for others. (Ernest Hemingway)
Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it. View quote
Harriet Martineau
It is the rate of investment which governs the rate of saving, and not vice versa. View quote
Joan Robinson
The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
Hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue. View quote
Theodor Mommsen
If Vice President Al Gore advocated killing rabbits to see if women are pregnant and called it a step forward for science, we'd all think he'd gone 'round the bend. We don't need to do that sort of thing anymore, we'd say. We have better, kinder ways. View quote
Ingrid Newkirk
I have learned, by some experience, that virtue and patriotism, vice and selfishness, are found in all parties, and that they differ less in their motives than in the policies they pursue. View quote
William H. Seward
He hasn't a single redeeming vice. View quote
Oscar Wilde
The supreme vice is shallowness. View quote
Oscar Wilde
The worst vice of a fanatic is his sincerity. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Dr. Roboy, in Litvak's measured view, had a vice common to believers: He was all strategy and no tactics. He was prone to move for the sake of moving, too focused on the goal to bother with the intervening sequence. (Michael Chabon)
They that endeavour to abolish vice destroy also virtue, for contraries, though they destroy one another, are yet the life of one another. View quote
Thomas Browne
A man given to vice is always an idealist. View quote
Georges Bernanos
Satire, though it may exaggerate the vice it lashes, is not justified in creating it in order that it may be lashed. View quote
Anthony Trollope
The French like burgers, Madonna and Miami Vice. View quote
Nicolas Sarkozy