Vice Quotes

Most popular vice quotes

Our virtues live upon our incomes; our vices consume our capital. - Jean Antoine Petit-Senn quote.
Our virtues live upon our incomes; our vices consume our capital.

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It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. - Abraham Lincoln quote.
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

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There are certain small faults that offset great virtues. There are certain great faults that are forgotten in small virtues.

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Here's a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once. - Tallulah Bankhead quote.
Here's a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once.

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I refuse to make a hierarchy of human actions and ascribe worthiness to some and ill-repute to others. The terms vice and virtue have no significance for me. I do not confer praise or blame: I accept. - W. Somerset Maugham quote.
I refuse to make a hierarchy of human actions and ascribe worthiness to some and ill-repute to others. The terms vice and virtue have no significance for me. I do not confer praise or blame: I accept.

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The vices of the rich and great are mistaken for error; and those of the poor and lowly, for crimes. - Lady Blessington quote.
The vices of the rich and great are mistaken for error; and those of the poor and lowly, for crimes.

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Vice is its own reward. - Quentin Crisp quote.
Vice is its own reward.
Vice  is a coward; to be truly brave, a man must be truly good.

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We are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health. - C. C. Colton quote.
We are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.

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Depend upon it, of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness. - Sir Walter Scott quote.
Depend upon it, of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.

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

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We make a ladder of our vices if we trample those same vices underfoot. - Augustine of Hippo quote.
We make a ladder of our vices if we trample those same vices underfoot.
What once were vices, are now the manners of the day. - Seneca quote.
What once were vices, are now the manners of the day.

manners

This is the danger, when vice becomes a precedent. - Ben Jonson quote.
This is the danger, when vice becomes a precedent.

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At the heart of every vice sits selfishness, yawning.

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I am on the side of those who believe that vice comes from stupidity and consequently that the nearer one draws to wisdom the farther one gets from vice.

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A sympathetic person is placed in the dilemma of a swimmer among drowning men, who all catch at him, and if he give so much as a leg or a finger, they will drown him.  They wish to be saved from the mischiefs of their vices, but not from their vices. - Ralph Waldo Emerson quote.
A sympathetic person is placed in the dilemma of a swimmer among drowning men, who all catch at him, and if he give so much as a leg or a finger, they will drown him.  They wish to be saved from the mischiefs of their vices, but not from their vices.

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Vices are their own punishment. - Aesop quote.
Vices are their own punishment.
It is but a step from companionship to slavery when one associates with vice. - Hosea Ballou quote.
It is but a step from companionship to slavery when one associates with vice.
The vices we scoff at in others laugh at us within ourselves. - Sir Thomas Browne quote.
The vices we scoff at in others laugh at us within ourselves.
One vice worn out makes us wiser than fifty tutors. - Edward Bulwer-Lytton quote.
One vice worn out makes us wiser than fifty tutors.
It is only in some corner of the brain which we leave empty that Vice can obtain a lodging.  When she knocks at your door, my son, be able to say, "No room for your ladyship—pass on." - Edward Bulwer-Lytton quote.
It is only in some corner of the brain which we leave empty that Vice can obtain a lodging.  When she knocks at your door, my son, be able to say, "No room for your ladyship—pass on."
So in the wicked there's no vice
Of which the saints have not a spice. - Samuel Butler quote.
So in the wicked there's no vice
Of which the saints have not a spice.
Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence. - Samuel Butler quote.
Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence.
Let thy vices die before thee. - Benjamin Franklin quote.
Let thy vices die before thee.
Vice knows she's ugly, so puts on her Mask. - Benjamin Franklin quote.
Vice knows she's ugly, so puts on her Mask.
What maintains one vice would bring up two children. - Benjamin Franklin quote.
What maintains one vice would bring up two children.
Vice would be frightful if it did not wear a mask. - Thomas Fuller quote.
Vice would be frightful if it did not wear a mask.

proverbs

The vices of the rich and great are mistaken for errors, and those of the poor and lowly for crimes. - Lady Blessington quote.
The vices of the rich and great are mistaken for errors, and those of the poor and lowly for crimes.
Many a man's vices have at first been nothing worse than good qualities run wild.
The hour of reformation is always delayed; every delay gives vice another opportunity of fortifying itself by habit. - Samuel Johnson quote.
The hour of reformation is always delayed; every delay gives vice another opportunity of fortifying itself by habit.
When our vices leave us, we flatter ourselves that we leave them. - François de La Rochefoucauld quote.
When our vices leave us, we flatter ourselves that we leave them.
Some, either from being glued to vice by a natural attachment, or from long habit, no longer recognize its ugliness. - Michel de Montaigne quote.
Some, either from being glued to vice by a natural attachment, or from long habit, no longer recognize its ugliness.
He who hates vices hates men. - John Viscount Morley quote.
He who hates vices hates men.
Vice is a monster of so frightful mien
As to be hated, needs but to be seen;
But seen too oft, familiar with her face,
We first endure, then pity, then embrace. - Alexander Pope quote.
Vice is a monster of so frightful mien
As to be hated, needs but to be seen;
But seen too oft, familiar with her face,
We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
Astronomy was born of superstition; eloquence of ambition, hatred, falsehood, and flattery; geometry of avarice; physics of an idle curiosity; and even moral philosophy of human pride.  Thus the arts and sciences owe their birth to our vices. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau quote.
Astronomy was born of superstition; eloquence of ambition, hatred, falsehood, and flattery; geometry of avarice; physics of an idle curiosity; and even moral philosophy of human pride.  Thus the arts and sciences owe their birth to our vices.
Through tatter'd clothes small vices do appear; Robbed and furr'd gowns hide all. - William Shakespeare quote.
Through tatter'd clothes small vices do appear; Robbed and furr'd gowns hide all.
The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices
Make instruments to plague us. - William Shakespeare quote.
The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices
Make instruments to plague us.
Every vice has its excuse ready. - Publilius Syrus quote.
Every vice has its excuse ready.
I haven't a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming petty vices.
It may be that vice, depravity, and crime are nearly always, or even perhaps always, in their essence, attempts to eat beauty, to eat what we should only look at. - Simone Weil quote.
It may be that vice, depravity, and crime are nearly always, or even perhaps always, in their essence, attempts to eat beauty, to eat what we should only look at.
Vice does not lose its nature, though it become ever so fashionable. - John Wesley quote.
Vice does not lose its nature, though it become ever so fashionable.
He hasn't a single redeeming vice. - Oscar Wilde quote.
He hasn't a single redeeming vice.
When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before. - Mae West quote.
When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.