Vices Quotes - Page 25

• My heart was fashioned to be susceptible of love and sympathy, and when wrenched by misery to vice and hatred, it did not endure the violence of the change without torture such as you cannot even imagine.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Heart, Hatred, Violence

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1988). “Frankenstein, Or, The Modern Prometheus: With Supplementary Essays and Poems from the Twentieth Century”, p.187, Orchises Press

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• He cannot "tempt" to virtue as we do to vice. He wants them to learn to walk and must therefore take away His hand; and if only the will to walk is really there He is pleased even with their stumbles.

  C. S. Lewis

  Hands, Want, Screwtape Letters

  C. S. Lewis (2013). “The Screwtape Letters: Annotated Edition”, p.36, Harper Collins

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• Gambling is not a vice, it is an expression of our humanness. We gamble. Some do it at the gaming table, some do not. You play, you win, you play, you lose. You play.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Fun, Winning, Humanness Is

  Jeanette Winterson (2007). “The Passion”, p.73, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Well, here he was. They could save each other, the way the poets promised lovers should. He was mystery, he was darkness, he was all she had dreamed of. And if she would only free him he would service her - oh yes - until her pleasure reached that threshold that, like all thresholds, was a place where the strong grew stronger, and the weak perished. Pleasure was pain there, and vice versa. And he knew it well enough to call it home.

  Clive Barker

  Strong, Pain, Home

  Clive Barker (1991). “The Hellbound Heart”, Voyager

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• My brother and I were able to fantasize far more extravagantly about our parents' tastes and desires, their aspirations and their vices, by scanning their bookcases than by snooping in their closest. Their selves were on their shelves.

  Anne Fadiman

  Brother, Self, Parent

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• Age - That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Life, Time, Age

  Ambrose Bierce (1906). “The Cynic's Word Book”, p.14, Lulu.com

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• We have made men proud of most vices, but not of cowardice. Whenever we have almost succeeded in doing so, God permits a war or an earthquake or some other calamity, and at once courage becomes so obviously lovely and important even in human eyes that all our work is undone, and there is still at least one vice of which they feel genuine shame. The danger of inducing cowardice in our patients, therefore, is lest we produce real self-knowledge and self-loathing, with consequent repentance and humility.

  C. S. Lewis

  Real, War, Humility

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• He hadn’t a single redeeming vice.

  Oscar Wilde

  Humorous, Redeeming

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• The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Today, Exhilaration, Virtue

  The Defendant "A Defence of Humility" (1901)

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• Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.

  Honore de Balzac

  Hate, Hatred, Soul

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• Who was it who said that every virtue contains its corresponding vice? C.S. Lewis? Virginia Woolf? You forget. But it has always worried you that what the virtue of wit contained was the vice of scorn.

  Kevin Brockmeier

  Virginia, Forget, Virtue

  Kevin Brockmeier (2008). “The View from the Seventh Layer: Stories”, p.101, Vintage

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• Be real and be unashamed, even of your faults. I do truly know what my husband is made of and vice versa.

  Amy Bloom

  Husband, Real, Faults

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• Near this spot are deposited the remains of one who possessed beauty without vanity, strength without insolence, courage without ferocity, and all the virtues of man, without his vices. This praise, which would be unmeaning flattery if inscribed over human ashes, is but a just tribute to the memory of Botswain, a dog.

  Lord Byron

  Dog, Memories, Men

  George Gordon Byron, “Epitaph To A Dog”

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• Vice is basically the love of failure.

  Elfriede Jelinek

  Elfriede Jelinek (2010). “The Piano Teacher”, p.118, Profile Books

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• Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.

  Moliere

  Fashion, Hypocrite, Hypocrisy

  Jean-Baptiste Moliere (2015). “Tartuffe and Other Plays”, p.248, Penguin

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• I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write English―it is the modern way and the best way. Stick to it; don't let fluff and flowers and verbosity creep in. When you catch an adjective, kill it. No, I don't mean utterly, but kill most of them―then the rest will be valuable. They weaken when they are close together. They give strength when they are wide apart. An adjective habit, or a wordy, diffuse, flowery habit, once fastened upon a person, is as hard to get rid of as any other vice.

  Mark Twain

  Flower, Writing, Mean

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• Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied, And vice sometime by action dignified.

  William Shakespeare

  Action, Juliet, Virtue

  1595 Friar Laurence. Romeo andJuliet, act 2, sc.2, l.21-2.

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• Liberate yourself from my vice-like grip!

  J. D. Salinger

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• Just as, at least in one religion, accidia is the first of the cardinal sins, so bordom, and particularly the incredible circumstance of waking up bored, was the only vice Bond utterly condemned.

  Ian Fleming

  Bored, Wake Up, Firsts

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• Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Pleasure, Majors

  Ernest Hemingway, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli (1986). “Conversations with Ernest Hemingway”, p.114, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgement, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is PRIDE, the never-failing vice of fools.

  Alexander Pope

  Failure, Pride, Men

  Alexander Pope (1808). “The poetical works of Alexander Pope. To which is prefixed the life of the author”, p.54

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• Tell me about this Wizard Howl of yours." "He's the best wizard in Ingary or anywhere else. If he'd only had time, he would have defeated that djinn. And he's sly and selfish and vain as a peacock and cowardly, and you can't pin him down to anything." "Indeed? Strange that you should speak so proudly such a list of vices, most loving of ladies." "What do you mean, vices? I was just describing Howl. He comes from another world entirely, you know, called Wales, and I refuse to believe he's dead!

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Selfish, Believe, Mean

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• [Government] regulation is an imperfect substitute for the accountability, and trust, built into a market in which food producers meet the gaze of eaters and vice versa.

  Michael Pollan

  Government, Accountability, Regulation

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• If it is true that cowardice is the most grave vice, then the dog, at least, is not guilty of it.

  Mikhail Bulgakov

  Dog, Guilty, Cowardice

  "The Master and Margarita". Book by Mikhail Bulgakov (Book Two, Chapter "Time to Go! Time to Go!"), 1967.

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• I don't know. Just because someone's pretty doesn't mean she's decent. Or vice versa. I'm not into appearances. I like flaws, I think they make things interesting.

  Sarah Dessen

  Mean, Thinking, Interesting

  Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.138, Penguin

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