Vice Quotes

In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
Marquis de Sade

Ourselves, Order, Virtue

A am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice.
Samuel Johnson

Great, Friend, Keep

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

Keep, Within, Virtue

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

Virtue, Midst, Versa

It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
Samuel Butler

Keep, Within, Virtue

By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt.
James Madison

Hatred, Pride, Labor

Ambition is not a vice of little people.
Michel de Montaigne

I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
Moliere

Annoying, Virtue, Pleasant

The disgrace of others often keeps tender minds from vice.
Horace

Others, Often, Minds

Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.
Michel de Montaigne

Nature, End, Last

No exile at the South Pole or on the summit of Mont Blanc separates us more effectively from others than the practice of a hidden vice.
Marcel Proust

Others, Practice, Hidden

Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.
Alexander Pope

It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness.
E. M. Forster

Mind, Vulgar, Thrilled

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

May, Become, Hatred

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

Everything, American, Unique

I find very often that very ugly women have really handsome men and vice versa because they don't have any competition. Sometimes handsome men have avoided me.
Hedy Lamarr

Women, Men, Find

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.
Noah Webster

Men, War, Ambition

There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.
William Hazlitt

Religion, Crime, Virtue

Some loves are like a vice that has ceased to give pleasure.
Mason Cooley

Give, Pleasure, Loves

There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.
William Makepeace Thackeray

Life, Real, Pass

Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.
M. Scott Peck

Wisdom, Discipline, Versa

He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place.
Charles Caleb Colton

Enough, Try, Energy

He that is good, will infallibly become better, and he that is bad, will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue and time are three things that never stand still.
Charles Caleb Colton

Time, Good, Bad

The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal it.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Reason, Step, Innocent

Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.
Peter Ustinov

Thought, Said, Her

Mr. Chairman, delegates, and fellow citizens: I am honored by the support of this convention for vice president of the United States. I accept the duty to help lead our nation out of a jobs crisis and back to prosperity - and I know we can do this.
Paul Ryan

Crisis, Help, Nation

Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.
Adam Smith

Conscience, Virtue, Subject

Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.
Franz Kafka

Beginning, Virtues, Idleness

No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.
Eugene Ionesco

Death, Fear, Society

Democracy means that anyone can grow up to be president, and anyone who doesn't grow up can be vice president.
Johnny Carson

Democracy, Means, Anyone

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