Famous Quotes & Sayings

Horace

Virtue consists in avoiding vice, and is the highest wisdom. [Lat., Virtus est vitium fugere, et sapientia prima.]

Hank Azaria

When you become deeply involved with someone, their problems become yours, and vice versa. It's family.

Gore Vidal

The American vice is explanation.

George Bernard Shaw

Bourgeois morality is largely a system of making cheap virtues a cloak for expensive vices.

Erich Fromm

If it is a virtue to love my neighbor as a human being, it must be a virtue - and not a vice - to love myself, since I am a human being too.

Francis of Assisi

Nor did demons crucify Him; it is you who have crucified Him and crucify Him still, when you delight in your vices and sins.

Erin Heatherton

Life would be pretty boring if we didn't have vices.

Cassandra Clare

Perhaps [James Herondale] loved vice for vice's own sake.

Jean de la Bruyere

The same vices which are huge and insupportable in others we do not feel in ourselves.

Joseph Joubert

Virtue by calculation is the virtue of vice.

Moliere

Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.

Natalie Clifford Barney

My queerness is not a vice, is not deliberate, and harms no one.

Julian Baggini

The greatest moral failing is to condemn something as a moral failing: no vice is worse than being judgmental.

H. L. Mencken

It costs more to maintain ten vices than one virtue.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Chastity is a virtue with some, but with many it is almost a vice.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

What often prevents our abandoning ourselves to a single vice is, our having more than one.

Francis Quarles

Other vices make their own way; this makes way for all vices. He that is a drunkard is qualified for all vice.

Horace Walpole

Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice.

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.

John Calvin

The vices of which we are full we carefully hide from others, and we flatter ourselves with the notion that they are small and trivial; we sometimes even embrace them as virtues.

Lysander Spooner

Vices are not crimes.

John F. Kennedy

Let's not talk so much about vice. I'm against vice in all forms.

Juliette Binoche

I was so happy when they cast me in Chocolat, because it's one of my vices.