Quotes about vices
vices dishonesty murder
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. Laurence Sterne
vices virtue shortcomings
Vices are simply overworked virtues ... Laura Ingalls Wilder
vices corruption members
All institutions are prone to corruption and to the vices of their members. Morris West
vices virtue involuntary
Virtue is voluntary, vice involuntary. Plato
vices vice-versa credibility
The truth of a proposition has nothing to do with its credibility. And vice versa. Robert A. Heinlein
vices savory sucker
I'm a sucker for fries. It's definitely one of my biggest vices. My biggest savory vice for sure. Shenae Grimes
vices different vice-versa
Luis Figo is totally different to David Beckham, and vice versa. Kevin Keegan
vices saint virtue
The virtues of society are the vices of the saints. Ralph Waldo Emerson
vices tendencies tempted
The general tendency [is] to be censorious of the vices to which one has not been tempted. Rebecca West
vices sin slave
The will is truly free, when it is not the slave of vices and sins. Saint Augustine
vices progression
Vice is a peripatetic, always in progression.
vices virtue endeavour
They that endeavour to abolish vice destroy also virtue, for contraries, though they destroy one another, are yet the life of one another. Thomas Browne
vices pieces madness
To me avarice seems not so much a vice as a deplorable piece of madness.
vices virtue pleasure
A vice is merely a pleasure to which somebody has objected.
vices pleasure
Pleasure itself is not a vice Samuel Johnson
vices virtue term
You must come to terms with your wholeself. the wholeness which exceeds all our virtue and all our vice. Ursula K. Le Guin
vices nine penalties
Nine-tenths of our measures for preventing vice are really protective towards it, because they ward off the penalty. William Graham Sumner
vices virtue rapids
I never was so rapid in my virtue but my vice kept up with me. Henry David Thoreau
vices morality life-is
Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice.
vices ideals
In our ideals we unwittingly reveal our vices. Jean Rostand
vices collaboration vice-versa
What I love about making movies is that it's a collaboration. It's one of the most rewarding things, to create something and have someone show you something that you didn't see, and vice versa. Hilary Swank
vices dollars cynicism
A dollar saved is a dollar earned but seldom vice versa. Evan Esar
vices fleeing virtue
Virtue consists in fleeing vice. Horace
vices vain embrace
In vain will you fly from one vice if in your wilfulness you embrace another.
vices virtue avoiding
Virtue consists in avoiding vice, and is the highest wisdom. [Lat., Virtus est vitium fugere, et sapientia prima.]
vices problem vice-versa
When you become deeply involved with someone, their problems become yours, and vice versa. It's family. Hank Azaria
vices explanation
The American vice is explanation. Gore Vidal
vices morality virtue
Bourgeois morality is largely a system of making cheap virtues a cloak for expensive vices. George Bernard Shaw
vices love-myself virtue
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. Erich Fromm
vices delight sin
Nor did demons crucify Him; it is you who have crucified Him and crucify Him still, when you delight in your vices and sins. Francis of Assisi
vices would-be boring
Life would be pretty boring if we didn't have vices. Erin Heatherton
vices sake
Perhaps [James Herondale] loved vice for vice's own sake. Cassandra Clare
vices feels huge
The same vices which are huge and insupportable in others we do not feel in ourselves. Jean de la Bruyere