Vice Quotes

Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.

This is the great vice of academicism, that it is concerned with ideas rather than with thinking.

In Washington, I found myself as a 31-year-old in a room with the president, vice president, and secretaries of state and defense, and I was unfazed by it. But get me around a rock star I grew up with and I have trouble completing sentences.

Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.

In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa.

Angels are not complete, they need their counterparts, the dark needs the bright, the hidden needs the open, and vice versa. Sometimes they meet and recognise each other. Sometimes, as with Horatio and me, the pairing occurs over spaces of time and distance.

I don't know how many people run for vice president and president and lose both.

Palin was a political Hail Mary, a long bomb in the closing minutes of a game that John McCain and Co. were certain to lose. They didn't care if she had the policy or political or emotional capacity to serve as vice president, let alone president. They were willing to drive the country off a cliff, if that's what it took to win.

By vulgarity I mean that vice of civilization which makes man ashamed of himself and his next of kin, and pretend to be somebody else.

In a network situation, a vice president, while he's shaving, can decide your history.

Avarice is the vice of declining years.

To all the rest of his Absurdities, (for vice is always unreasonable,) he adds one more, who expects that Vertue from another which he won't practise himself.

What a pity it is that we have no amusements in England but vice and religion!

Oftentimes we love the thing we hate and vice versa.

An actor who is good at comedy can also be very good at drama, but not necessarily vice versa.

Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.

I think my vice would be outdoing myself.

Far be it from me to denigrate Senator McCain's advice on vice presidential nominees.

As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.

My grandmother had a Miss Margaret's School of Dance to teach tap and ballet to kids, but I never studied it. I was raised a Mormon and they're dancing fools. It's the only vice they have - dancing.

Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice.

All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.

I hope they get something of interest out of it, but I'd rather they all hate it and I like it, instead of vice versa... I make films to please myself first, and if the audience likes them, all the better.

When Roosevelt came along, I approved of his program, generally. I figured an economic system should work for people, not vice versa.

Justified or not, the Supreme Court has a kind of sacred status in American life. For whatever reason, Presidents can safely run against Congress, and vice versa, but I think there is an inherent popular aversion to assaults on the court itself. Perhaps it has to do with an instinctive belief that life needs umpires.

My only aversion to vice, is the price.

Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome.

The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.

I started at Pillsbury as a manager in one of their analysis functions, then worked my way up the corporate ladder to become vice president. Moving to Burger King was an important moment in my career.

For me, drawing generates thinking and vice versa.