Famous Quotes & Sayings

Vice is a peripatetic, always in progression.

Plato

Virtue is voluntary, vice involuntary.

John Dryden

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

John Baldessari

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

Juliette Binoche

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

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.

Patrick Henry

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

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.

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!

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.

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.

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 worst vice of the fanatic is his sincerity.

Oscar Wilde

The supreme vice is shallowness.

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.

Kathy Griffin

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

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.

Morris West

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

Plato

Great parts produce great vices as well as virtues.

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.

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.