Vices Quotes

The name and pretense of virtue is as serviceable to self-interest as are real vices.

As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt.

Through tattered clothes, small vices do appear. Robes and furred gowns hide all.

Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.

Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.

Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.

The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.

There have been times in my life that I've had a ton of vices, and my demons have run amok for years and years and years.

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

The virtue of some people consists wholly in condemning the vices in others.

Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.

Here's a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once.

When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.

He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

Man's natural character is to imitate; that of the sensitive man is to resemble as closely as possible the person whom he loves. It is only by imitating the vices of others that I have earned my misfortunes.

For me, I go in and play a few Christian songs for an audience, and now I have people come up and not tell me I'm great, but tell me that my music is helping save their lives, helping them in the Lord, and helping them end their vices.

I am a technological activist. I have a political agenda. I am in favor of basic human rights: to free speech, to use any information and technology, to purchase and use recreational drugs, to enjoy and purchase so-called 'vices', to be free of intruders, and to privacy.

A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.

Have not prisons - which kill all will and force of character in man, which enclose within their walls more vices than are met with on any other spot of the globe - always been universities of crime?

The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.

Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised.

We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by those images we have put in their place.

Coercion may prevent many transgressions; but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom may lead to many transgressions, but it lends even to vices a less ignoble form.

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

We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.

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

Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.

Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail.

What is public history but a register of the successes and disappointments, the vices, the follies and the quarrels of those who engage in contention for power.

There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.