Famous Quotes & Sayings

Patrick Henry

It is the business of a virtuous clergy to censure vice in every appearance of it.

Oscar Wilde

The worst vice of the fanatic is his sincerity.

Mikhail Bulgakov

Cowardice was undoubtedly one of the most terrible vices - thus spoke Yeshua Ha-Nozri. 'No, philosopher, I disagree with you: it is the most terrible vice!

Mikhail Bulgakov

Cowardice is the most terrible of vices.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.

Publilius Syrus

Vices that are familiar we pardon, and only new ones reprehend.

Publilius Syrus

We tolerate without rebuke the vices with which we have grown familiar.

Publilius Syrus

Every vice has its excuse ready.

Niccolo Machiavelli

A prince must be prudent enough to know how to escape the bad reputation of those vices that would lose the state for him, and must protect himself from those that will not lose it for him, if this is possible; but if he cannot, he need not concern himself unduly if he ignores these less serious vices.

Kathy Griffin

Food is my thing, I do not smoke or drink, so food is my vice.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

It is a great thing to know your vices.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed (from friendship). [Lat., Assentatio, vitiorum adjutrix, procul amoveatur.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed .

Oscar Wilde

The supreme vice is shallowness.

Louis Kronenberger

In the history of mankind, fanaticism has caused more harm than vice.

Michel de Montaigne

I find that the best virtue I have has in it some tincture of vice.

George Washington

Can it be, that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a Nation with its virtue? The experiment, at least, is recommended by every sentiment which ennobles human Nature. Alas! is it rendered impossible by its vices?

Friedrich Nietzsche

What is more harmful than any vice? Practical sympathy and pity for all the failures and all the weak : Christianity.

Marcel Proust

There is probably no one, however rigid his virtue, who is not liable to find himself, by the complexity of circumstances, living at close quarters with the very vice which he himself has been most outspoken in condemning -- without altogether recognizing it beneath the disguise of ambiguous behavior which it assumes in his presence.

Kenneth Grahame

It is the restrictions placed on vice by our social code which makes its pursuit so peculiarly agreeable.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The confidant of my vices is my master, though he were my valet.

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

Hilary Mantel

Hindsight is the historian's necessary vice.

Mason Cooley

Virtue sometimes pretends. Vice is always sincere.

Mason Cooley

Unlike other vices, cruelty, alas, is never boring.

Michel Patini

You know, my role as Vice Chairman is a lot less tiring than playing matches every three days.

Ted Turner

I like something with 'vice' in it.

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.

Plato

Great parts produce great vices as well as virtues.

Laurence Sterne

I have so great a contempt and detestation for meanness, that I could sooner make a friend of one who had committed murder, than of a person who could be capable, in any instance, of the former vice. Under meanness, I comprehend dishonesty; under dishonesty, ingratitude; under ingratitude, irreligion; and under this latter, every species of vice and immorality in human nature.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

Vices are simply overworked virtues ...

Morris West

All institutions are prone to corruption and to the vices of their members.

Laura Davies

You've got 12 teammates, all the caddies, the captain, the vice captain,