Quotes
Quotes about Vice
If individuals have no vices, their virtues may be of use to us.
Vices are often habits rather than passions.
Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher.
There will be vice as long as there are men.
We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke straps our vice.
Nurse one vice in your bosom. Give it the attention it deserves and let your virtues spring p modestly around it. Then you'll have the miser who's no liar; and the drunkard who's the benefactor of the whole city.
Men wish to be saved from the mischiefs of their vices, but not from their vices.
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
This is the essential evil of vice, that it debases man.
Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.
The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it.
Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it.
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
He who hates vice hates men.
The virtue of some people consists wholly in condemning the vices in others.
What were once vices are the fashion of the day.
Every vice has its excuse ready.
I have not a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming vices.
Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinnersâyour lecherous liars and your miserly drunkardsâwho dishonor the vices and bring them into bad repute.
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
Hate no one; hate their vices, not themselves.
Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.
The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
Vice is such a hideous creature, that the more you see of it the better you like it.
