Vices Quotes

No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.
Charles Caleb Colton

Health, Bad, Others

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.
Marquis de Sade

Character, Person, Others

Crimes sometimes shock us too much; vices almost always too little.
Augustus Hare

Sometimes, Almost, Shock

How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Morning, After, Committed

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

Greatness, Drinking

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.
Daniel J. Boorstin

Reality, Put, Place

Let them show me a cottage where there are not the same vices of which they accuse the courts.
Lord Chesterfield

Same, Show, Accuse

Nature, who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium, has sometimes need of vices and sometimes of virtues, inspires now this impulse, now that one, in accordance with what she requires.
Marquis de Sade

Nature, Perfect, Sometimes

It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.
Walter Bagehot

I am the worst influence. If you can't handle your vices, then I am the Devil.
Tori Amos

Devil, Influence, Worst

Although all the good arts serve to draw man's mind away from vices and lead it toward better things, this function can be more fully performed by this art, which also provides extraordinary intellectual pleasure.
Nicolaus Copernicus

Good, Art, Mind

We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.
Denis Diderot

Far, Catch, Virtues

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

Two, Here, Once

An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft.
Walter Bagehot

Great, Made, Popular

We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.
Augustine of Hippo

Same, Ourselves, Ladder

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?
Peter Kropotkin

Character, Within, Force

The accumulation of numbers always augments in some measure moral corruptions, and the consequences to health of the various vices incident thereto, are well known.
William Falconer

Health, Moral, Known

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

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

Fail, Unless, Attractive

Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised.
Juvenal

Virtues, Disguised, Frequently

We can endure neither our vices nor the remedies for them.
Titus Livius

Nor, Neither, Endure

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

Others, Virtue, Condemning

As the most extravagant errors were received among the established articles of their faith, so the most infamous vices obtained in their practice, and were indulged not only with impunity, but authorized by the sanction of their laws.
David Brainerd

Faith, Practice, Among

Evil borders upon good, and vices are confounded with virtues; as the report of good qualities is delightful to a well-disposed mind, so the relation of the contrary should not be offensive.
Giraldus Cambrensis

Good, Mind, Evil

A lot of vices that I've had over the years were always to make up for some sort of character deficiency, one of them being shyness.
Slash

Character, Shyness, Deficiency

So much of our lives is given over to the consideration of our imperfections that there is no time to improve our imaginary virtues. The truth is we only perfect our vices, and man is a worse creature when he dies than he was when he was born.
Edward Dahlberg

Time, Truth, Perfect

Most of the vices and mortal sins condemned today correspond to inclinations that were purely adaptive or at least harmless in primitive man.
Konrad Lorenz

Today, Sins, Mortal

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.
Rick Derringer

Music, Great, End

One of my last few vices is coffee, but with a spot of almond or soymilk, it's never tasted better!
Michelle Forbes

Coffee, Last, Few

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.
Bram Cohen

Technology, Political, Human

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