| 50 Vice Quotes
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“The worst vice of a fanatic is his sincerity.”
Oscar Wilde Quotes |
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“He hadn't a single redeeming vice.”
Oscar Wilde Quotes |
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“I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores”
Moliere Quotes |
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“Vice knows she's ugly, so puts on her mask”
Benjamin Franklin Quotes |
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“Search others for their virtues, thy self for thy vices”
Benjamin Franklin Quotes |
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“Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice”
Samuel Johnson Quotes |
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“He possessed beauty without vanity, strength without insolence; courage without ferocity; and all the virtues of man without his vices”
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“Vice is its own reward”
Quentin Crisp Quotes |
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“Vices are their own punishment”
Aesop Quotes |
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“The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.”
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“Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.”
Aristophanes Quotes 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.]”
Saint Aurelius Augustine Quotes Source: Sermon 3--De Ascensione
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“Vices of the time; vices of the man.
[Lat., Vitia temporis; vitia hominis.]”
Francis Bacon Quotes Source: Humble Submission and Supplication to the Lords of Parliament
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“Vice gets more in this vicious world
Than piety.”
Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher Quotes Source: Love's Cure (act II, sc. 1)
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“Vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.”
Edmund Burke Quotes Source: Reflections on the Revolution in France
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“To sanction Vice, and hunt Decorum down.”
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Quotes Source: English Bards and Scotch Reviewers (l. 621)
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“And last the Vice and Follies of the Age.”
Mrs. Susannah Centlivre Quotes 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.”
Charles Churchill Quotes Source: The Rosciad (l. 137)
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“What maintains one vice would bring up two children.”
Benjamin Franklin Quotes 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.]”
Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenal) Quotes 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.”
Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld Quotes Source: Maxims (no. 195)
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“A vice is a failure of desire.”
Gerald Stanley Lee Quotes 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.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes 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?”
Alexander Pope Quotes 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.”
Alexander Pope Quotes Source: Essay on Man (ep. II, l. 217)
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