Quotes about Vice

26 quotes about Vice

It has since been agreed that speeches given in English will be translated into French and vice versa, and even into German and Italian when necessary. No doubt translations into Esperanto will also soon be in demand.

Quote by Fredrik Bajer about vice

When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice...

When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa.

Quote by Honoré de Balzac about vice

Nor is it the least advantage to health, accruing from such a way of life, that it expose those who follow it to fewer temptations to vice, than persons who live in crowded society.

Quote by William Falconer about vice

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.

Quote by Eugen Ionescu about vice

A am a great friend of public amusements, they keep...

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

Quote by Samuel Johnson about vice

But if he does really think that there is no distinction...

But if he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, Sir, when he leaves our houses, let us count our spoons.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about vice

I struggled for 15 years in this business before Miami...

I struggled for 15 years in this business before Miami Vice came along.

Quote by Don Johnson about vice

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

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

Quote by Juvenal about vice

Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all...

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

Quote by Franz Kafka about vice

The 10 minutes presentation or video stating everything on how the company caring about you as an employee and as an individual was originally a brilliant April fools joke until a vice president decided that some of the grunts are dumb enough to...

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about vice

The calls that I have received from President Bush and Vice President Cheney, the fact that there are other people that are suffering every bit as much as I am, and that our whole nation is going through a tragedy together, I think we have to...

Quote by Ted Olson about vice

To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind...

To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.

Quote by Ouida about vice

A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be....

A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue, but moderation in principle is always a vice.

Quote by Thomas Paine about vice

Moderation in temper is always a virtue, but moderation...

Moderation in temper is always a virtue, but moderation in principle is always a vice.

Quote by Thomas Paine about vice

By 1980, when I came out of prison, The Sun did a campaign to stop putting vice girls in prison. We've talked about it ever since and nothing has been done about it.

Quote by Cynthia Payne about vice

Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.

Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.

Quote by M. Scott Peck about vice

Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its...

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

Quote by Adam Smith about vice

Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer...

Quote by William Golding about vice

Vices are often habits rather than passions.

Vices are often habits rather than passions.

Quote by Antoine de Rivarol about vice

Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it.

Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it.

Quote by Edgar Degas about vice

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