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Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
Author: Aristophanes
Source: The Clouds
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We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those
same vices underfoot.
[Lat., De vitiis nostris scalam nobis facimus, si vitia ipsa
calcamus.]
Author: Saint Aurelius Augustine
Source: Sermon 3--De Ascensione
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Vices of the time; vices of the man.
[Lat., Vitia temporis; vitia hominis.]
Author: Francis Bacon
Source: Humble Submission and Supplication to the Lords of Parliament
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Vice gets more in this vicious world
Than piety.
Author: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher
Source: Love's Cure (act II, sc. 1)
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Vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.
Author: Edmund Burke
Source: Reflections on the Revolution in France
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To sanction Vice, and hunt Decorum down.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: English Bards and Scotch Reviewers (l. 621)
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And last the Vice and Follies of the Age.
Author: Mrs. Susannah Centlivre
Source: Prologue to The Man's Bewitched
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Ne'er blush'd, unless, in spreading vice's snares,
She blunder'd on some virtue unawares.
Author: Charles Churchill
Source: The Rosciad (l. 137)
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What maintains one vice would bring up two children.
Author: Benjamin Franklin
Source: Poor Richard's Almanac
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Every vice makes its guilt the more conspicuous in proportion to
the rank of the offender.
[Lat., Omne animi vitium tanto conspectius in se
Crimen habet, quanto major qui peccat habetur.]
Author: Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenal)
Source: Satires (VIII, 140)
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We do not despise all those who have vices, but we despise all
those who have not a single virtue.
Author: Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
Source: Maxims (no. 195)
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A vice is a failure of desire.
Author: Gerald Stanley Lee
Source: Crowds (bk. IV, ch. XIII)
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Saint Augustine! well hast thou said,
That of our vices we can frame
A ladder, if we will but tread
Beneath our feet each deed of shame.
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Source: The Ladder of St. Augustine (st. 1)
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Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast;
But shall the dignity of vice be lost?
Author: Alexander Pope
Source: Epilogue to Satires (dialogue I)
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Vice is a monster of so frightful mien,
As to be hated need but to be seen;
Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face,
We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
Author: Alexander Pope
Source: Essay on Man (ep. II, l. 217)
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The heart resolves this matter in a trice,
"Men only feel the smart, but not the vice."
Author: Alexander Pope
Source: Horace (bk. II, ep. II, l. 216)
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Those vices [luxury and neglect of decent manners] are vices of
men, not of the times.
[Lat., Hominum sunt ista [vitia], non temporum.
Author: Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
Source: Epistles (97)
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The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices
Make instruments to plague us.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: King Lear (Edgar at V, iii)
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There is no vice so simple but assumes
Some mark of virtue on his outward parts.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The Merchant of Venice (Bassanio at III, ii)
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Who has a book of all that monarchs do,
He's more secure to keep it shut than shown;
For vice repeated is like the wand'ring wind,
Blows dust in others' eye, to spread itself;
And yet the end of all is bought thus dear,
The breath is gone, and the sore eyes see clear
To stop the air would hurt them.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Pericles Prince of Tyre (Pericles at I, i)
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O, what a mansion have those vices got
Which for their habitation chose out thee,
Where beauty's veil doth cover every blot
And all things turns to fair that eyes can see!
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Sonnet XCV
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Many without punishment, none without sin.
Author: John Ray
Source: None
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The willing contemplation of vice is vice.
Author: Arabian Proverb
Source: None
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It is but a step from companionship to slavery when one associates with vice.
Author: Hosea Ballou
Source: None
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The vices we scoff at in others, laugh at us within ourselves.
Author: Thomas Browne
Source: None
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Wild oats make a bad autumn crop.
Author: Cynic's Calendar
Source: None
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Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.
Author: William Ellery Channing
Source: None
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Ill habits gather by unseen degrees,As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
Author: John Dryden
Source: None
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One big vice in a man is apt to keep out a great many smaller ones.
Author: Bret Harte
Source: None
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If individuals have no vices, their virtues may be of use to us.
Author: Junius
Source: None
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Vices are often habits rather than passions.
Author: Antoine Rivarol
Source: None
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Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher.
Author: Seneca
Source: None
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There will be vice as long as there are men.
Author: Tacitus
Source: None
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We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke straps our vice.
Author: Henry David Thoreau
Source: None
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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.
Author: Thornton Wilder
Source: None
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If you don't want anyone to know it, don't do it.
Author: Chinese Proverb
Source: None
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Men wish to be saved from the mischiefs of their vices, but not from their vices.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: None
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It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
Author: Abraham Lincoln
Source: None
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This is the essential evil of vice, that it debases man.
Author: Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Source: None
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Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.
Author: Ralph Walkdo Emerson
Source: None
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