Vices Quotes
It has ever been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
There will be vice as long as there are men.
We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.
Our virtues are most often but our vices disguised.
Minor vices lead to major ones, but minor virtues stay put.
Some vices only lay hold of us by means of others, and these, like branches, fall on removal of the trunk.
Vices are their own punishment.
One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real.
Hate no one; hate their vices, not themselves.
Vice knows she’s ugly, so puts on her mask.
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.
One big vice in a man is apt to keep out a great many smaller ones.
Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!
A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.
He that is good, will infallibly become better, and he that is bad, will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue and time are three things that never stand still.
Every vice has its excuse ready.
The virtue of some people consists wholly in condemning the vices in others.
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.
Vices are often habits rather than passions.
It is a great thing to know our vices.
The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.
Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.
Search others for their virtues, thy self for thy vices.
When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
Vice is like a fury to the vicious mind, and turns delight itself to punishment.
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.
The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.
