Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.
Change generally pleases the rich. [Lat., Plerumque gratae divitibus vices.]
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
Loud indignation against vice often stands for virtue in the eyes of bigots.
The virtue of some people consists wholly in condemning the vices in others.
Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.
The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body - and vice versa.
It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
My professional life has nothing to do with my personal life and vice versa.
Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want.
If I am virtuous and worthy, for whom should I not maintain a proper concern?
If I have one vice and I can call it nothing else it is not able to say 'no'.
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
It is but a step from companionship to slavery when one associates with vice.
Vice is contagious, and there is no trusting the sound and the sick together.
Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination.
In vain will you fly from one vice if in your wilfulness you embrace another.
We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.
It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.
For in the fatness of these pursy times Virtue itself of vice must pardon beg.
I am the worst influence. If you can't handle your vices, then I am the Devil.
Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
I liked Bach played the way people expect Chopin to be played, and vice versa.
It is the common vice of all, in old age, to be too intent upon our interests.
Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast; But shall the dignity of vice be lost?
Stories now, to suit a public taste, must be half epigram, half pleasant vice.
Being virtuous is wonderful thing, but feeling virtuous is a shortcut to vice.
There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.
Tis all in vain to keep a constant pother About one vice and fall into another.
Restfulness is a quality for cattle; the virtues are all active, life is alert.
Of the two, I prefer those who render vice lovable to those who degrade virtue.
My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.
Children will imitate their fathers in their vices, seldom in their repentance.
A man's heterosexuality will not put up with any homosexuality, and vice versa.
When our vices desert us, we flatter ourselves that we are deserting our vices.
Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
I believe that I am God's exact intention. It's that balance of virtue and vice.
One principal characteristic of vice in the present age is the contempt of fame.
There are thorns everywhere, but along the path of vice, roses bloom above them.
It is the business of a comic poet to paint the vices and follies of human kind.
Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue.
There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.
a weak and irresolute disposition is often more destructive than determined vice.
I think women can be as cruel as men, and men as tender as women, and vice versa.
Through tattered clothes, small vices do appear. Robes and furred gowns hide all.
Virtue may not always make a Face handsome, but Vice will certainly make it ugly.
Left to my own vices, all I would own is a Corvette, and it would be broken down.
You who make the laws, the vices and the virtues of the people will be your work.
A thirst for gold, The beggar's vice, which can but overwhelm The meanest hearts.