Quotes and Sayings About Vices
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Manchester has everything but good looks..., the only place in England which escapes our characteristic vice of snobbery.
-- A. J. P. Taylor -
I think women can be as cruel as men, and men as tender as women, and vice versa.
-- Aaron Eckhart -
Deceit is the false road to happiness; and all the joys we travel through to vice, like fairy banquets, vanish when we touch them.
-- Aaron HillSource : Aaron Hill (1760). “Works”, p.21
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Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.
-- Abu Bakr -
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Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.
-- Adam Smith -
The darker the subject, the more light you must try to shed on the matter. And vice versa.
-- Alan AyckbournSource : Alan Ayckbourn (2015). “The Crafty Art of Playmaking”, p.11, Macmillan
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My feeling about work is it's much more about the experience of doing it than the end product. Sometimes things that are really great and make lots of money are miserable to make, and vice versa.
-- Alan Cumming -
It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
-- Alan Perlis -
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I have always thought it would be easier to redeem a man steeped in vice and crime than a greedy, narrow-minded, pitiless merchant.
-- Albert Camus -
Hypocrisy is the homage that vice and wrong pay to virtue and justice .
-- Albert PikeSource : Albert Pike “Morals and Dogma : Scottish Rite in Freemasonry”, Lulu.com
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For the born traveller, travelling is a besetting vice. Like other vices, it is imperious, demanding its victim's time, money, energy and the sacrifice of comfort.
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Young men make wars, and the virtues of war are the virtues of young men: courage, and hope for the future. Then old men make the peace, and the vices of peace are the vices of old men: mistrust and caution.
-- Alec GuinnessSource : "Fictional character: Prince Faisal". "Lawrence of Arabia", 1962.
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I'm the only American alive or dead who presided unhappily over the removal of a vice president and a president.
-- Alexander Haig -
Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.
-- Alexander Pope -
Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast; But shall the dignity of vice be lost?
-- Alexander Pope -
I would not be like those Authors, who forgive themselves some particular lines for the sake of a whole Poem, and vice versa a whole Poem for the sake of some particular lines. I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer, as the power of rejecting his own thoughts.
-- Alexander Pope -
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Tis all in vain to keep a constant pother About one vice and fall into another.
-- Alexander Pope -
Sometimes virtue starves while vice is fed.
-- Alexander Pope -
Count all th' advantage prosperous Vice attains, 'Tis but what Virtue flies from and disdains: And grant the bad what happiness they would, One they must want--which is, to pass for good.
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Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.
-- Alexander Pope -
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Cruelty to animals is one of the most significant vices of a low and ignoble people.
-- Alexander von Humboldt -
An army is a nation within a nation, it is one of the vices of courage.
-- Alfred de Vigny -
[I]f vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established.
-- Algernon Sidney -
HERMIT, n. A person whose vices and follies are not sociable.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
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IDLENESS, n. A model farm where the devil experiments with seeds of new sins and promotes the growth of staple vices.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Be real and be unashamed, even of your faults. I do truly know what my husband is made of and vice versa.
-- Amy Bloom -
This diary is my kief, hashish and opium pipe. This is my drug and my vice.
-- Anais Nin -
I rarely drink, I don't smoke, so my vice is probably creating. I'm addicted to creating. And women.
-- Andre BenjaminSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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Oftentimes we love the thing we hate and vice versa.
-- Andres Serrano -
Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome.
-- Angela CarterSource : Angela Carter (2012). “Wise Children”, p.10, Random House