Vice Quotes

The superior power of population cannot be checked without producing misery or vice.
Thomas Malthus

Power, Cannot, Misery

The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food.
Cyril Connolly

Food, Worst, Worship

Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.
Edith Sitwell

Good, Worst, Taste

I was in elective politics for 24 years. I've made four national races, two for President, two for Vice President. I have found there are other ways to serve, and I'm enjoying them.
Al Gore

Politics, Made, Two

I'm the only American alive or dead who presided unhappily over the removal of a vice president and a president.
Alexander Haig

American, Dead, Alive

The tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice, in tempting and deceiving, in perjury and injustice.
Joseph Butler

May, Made, Injustice

It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.
James F. Cooper

Men, Law, Opinion

You can know a person by the kind of desk he keeps. If the president of a company has a clean desk then it must be the executive vice president who is doing all the work.
Harold S. Geneen

Work, Person, President

Everybody knows they're on the Obama team: There isn't vice presidential vs. presidential division, there's not a generational pull. People have internalized that this is a real moment in history.
Rahm Emanuel

History, Real, Moment

There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
Oliver Goldsmith

Weed, Excellence, Virtue

Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination.
Daniel Defoe

Door, Necessity

So if the players trust the coach, it's not a problem. If the players don't trust the coach, it is a problem, and vice versa.
Bill Parcells

Trust, Problem, Players

I actually prepared Vice President Biden for his debate in the last election. I played Sarah Palin. It's a little tough debating a woman.
Jennifer Granholm

Woman, Tough, Last

I readily admit I was not an expert on foreign policy but I was knowledgeable and I didn't need a man who was the Vice President of the United States and my opponent turning around and putting me down.
Geraldine Ferraro

Down, Around, President

It is all about marketing; that is where the real craft comes in. The best actors do not necessarily become the biggest stars. And vice versa.
Dirk Benedict

Best, Real, Become

Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
Quintilian

Ambition, Often, Parent

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.
Quintilian

Character, Mind, Matter

Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.
Quintilian

Ambition, Often, Times

No one ever reached the worst of a vice at one leap.
Juvenal

Worst, Leap, Reached

Ignorance is the primary source of all misery and vice.
Victor Cousin

Ignorance, Misery, Source

Mom was the greatest influence of my childhood. She wanted to save me from the vice, lust, and drinking that was all about me.
Ethel Waters

Mom, Greatest, Wanted

Mission accomplished? The mission in Iraq, as laid out by President Bush and Vice President Cheney, has failed.
Robert Byrd

President, Iraq, Mission

Food is my thing, I do not smoke or drink, so food is my vice.
Kathy Griffin

Food, Drink, Smoke

Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.
Lyman Abbott

Life, Through, Temptation

As an actor, you don't often get a chance to know exactly the impact of what the audience is seeing, even though you can ask where the frame is. A move that feels tiny can be huge, and vice versa.
John Hawkes

Chance, Often, Actor

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

Religion, England, Pity

If the players don't trust the coach, it is a problem, and vice versa.
Bill Parcells

Trust, Problem, Players

In the late '70s, maybe just before I started, there was still an attitude that if you did film you didn't do TV and vice versa, but that's gone now.
Robert Carlyle

Attitude, Before, Film

What has the women's movement learned from Geraldine Ferraro's candidacy for vice president? Never get married.
Gloria Steinem

Women, Learned, Married

It has always seemed slightly uncomfortable, the idea of politicised musicians. Very few of them are clever enough to do it; if they're good at the political side, the music side suffers, and vice versa.
Robert Smith

Music, Good, Political

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