Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

John Baldessari

Photos should suggest a word(s) and vice versa. They should be equal and interchangeable.

Livy

We can endure neither our vices nor their cure.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Extremism is the pursuit of the presidency is an unpardonable vice. Moderation in the affairs of the nation is the highest virtue.

Ouida

To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.

Paul Krugman

When depression economics prevails, the usual rules of economic policy no longer apply: virtue becomes vice, caution is risky and prudence is folly.

John Dryden

Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.

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!