Vice Quotes

And I've been acting for 39 years, so I define characters differently than I did in say Miami Vice.

The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

The facts are the vice president's company that he was CEO of, that did business with sworn enemies of the United States, paid millions of dollars in fines for providing false financial information, it's under investigation for bribing foreign officials.

I consider nothing low but ignorance, vice, and meanness, characteristics generally found where the animal propensities predominate over the higher sentiments.

It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd.

Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.

For years I thought what was good for our country was good for General Motors and vice versa. The difference did not exist. Our company is too big. It goes with the welfare of the country.

Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it.

I have my once-a-month nachos, but it's soy cheese and turkey chili on it, so it's somewhat safe. But it's still a big vice for me, because I have a big bowl of it.

Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.

Fast cars are my only vice.

He who hates vice hates men.

The President has only 190 million bosses. The Vice President has 190 million and one.

Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.

It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.

We, Norton I, do hereby decree that the offices of President, Vice President, and Speaker of the House of Representatives are, from and after this date, abolished.

Where the state begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa.

Ambition, in a private man is a vice, is in a prince the virtue.

After being sworn in to office, vice presidents have usually been relegated to the sidelines, where they just don't get to do very much.

This point seems counter-intuitive, given the amount of conspicuous vulgarity, vice, and immorality in America. Indeed some Islamic fundamentalists argue that their regimes are morally superior to the United States because they seek to foster virtue among the citizens.

Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.

There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true.

All is extremely genteel; and there is almost as much repose as in the golden saloons of the contiguous palaces. At any rate, if there be as much vice, there is as little crime.

The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.

Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!

It's pretty hard to say no when a vice president-elect and a president-elect ask you to be part of the national team.

I never was very capable of expressing my feelings or emotions in words. I don't know whether this is the cause why I did it in music and also why I did it in painting. Or vice versa: That I had this way as an outlet. I could renounce expressing something in words.

Americans were told repeatedly by President Bush and Vice President Cheney that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. None were ever found.

Except for the title 'father,' there is no title, including 'vice president,' that I am more proud to wear than that of United States senator.

A good general rule is to state that the bouquet is better than the taste, and vice versa.