Vices Quotes - Page 29

• In the end, living is defined by dying. Book-ended by oblivion, we are caught in the vice of terror, squeezed to bursting by the approaching end. Fear is ever-present, waiting to be called to the surface. Change brought fear, and fear brought destruction.

  Bernard Beckett

  Book, Waiting, Dying

  "Genesis". Book by Bernard Beckett, 2006.

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• Indulge me, John. Cynicism and foul language are the only vices I'm presently capable of. Everything else takes energy or money.

  Mary Doria Russell

  Energy, Foul Language, Cynicism

  Mary Doria Russell (1998). “Children of God: A Novel”, Villard Books

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• There was only today to throw yourself into without thinking about tomorrow, let alone forever. To keep you from thinking, there was liquor, an ocean's worth at least, all the usual vices and plenty of rope to hang yourself with. Love is a beautiful liar.

  Paula McLain

  Beautiful, Liars, Ocean

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• Unhappiness. There are all kinds of unhappy people in the world. I suppose it would be no exaggeration to say that the world is composed entirely of unhappy people. But those people can fight their unhappiness with society fairly and squarly, and society for its part easily understands and sympathizes with such struggles. My unhappiness stemmed entirely from my own vices, and I had no way of fighting anybody.

  Osamu Dazai

  Struggle, Fighting, People

  Osamu Dazai (1973). “No Longer Human”, p.157, New Directions Publishing

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• In the end, the sum of my vices is all me.

  Melina Marchetta

  Ends

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• Since there are thousands of fairy tales, one may safely guess that there are probably equal numbers where the courage and determination of females rescue males, and vice versa.

  Bruno Bettelheim

  Determination, Numbers, Female

  Bruno Bettelheim (1976). “The uses of enchantment: the meaning and importance of fairy tales”, Knopf

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• It is ourselves we have to fear. Prejudice is the real robber, and vice the real murderer.

  Victor Hugo

  Real, Prejudice, Murderer

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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• Some choices are forever....Just because people aren't in our lives anymore, doesn't mean they stop thinking about us and vice versa.

  Wendy Mass

  Mean, Thinking, People

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• I sometimes think that shame, mere awkward, senseless shame, does as much towards preventing good acts and straightforward happiness as any of our vices can do.

  C. S. Lewis

  Happiness, Thinking, Awkward

  C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.7, Faber & Faber

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• He who seeks to regulate everything by law is more likely to arouse vices than to reform them. It is best to grant what cannot be abolished, even though it be in itself harmful. How many evils spring from luxury, envy, avarice, drunkenness and the like, yet these are tolerated because they cannot be prevented by legal enactments.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Spring, Law, Luxury

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• Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed. People talk sometimes of secret vices, there are no such things. If a wretched man has a vice, it shows itself in the lines of his mouth, the droop of his eyelids, the moulding of his hands even.

  Oscar Wilde

  Writing, Men, Hands

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.293, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Part of the problem about authenticity is that virtues aren't the only things that are habit forming: the more someone behaves in a way that is damaging to self or to others, the more "natural" it will both seem and actually be. Spontaneity, left to itself, can begin by excusing bad behavior and end by congratulating vice.

  N. T. Wright

  Self, Way, Problem

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• Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls.

  Victor Hugo

  Eye, Animal, Reflection

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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• [...] Tess and I are a good match. She understands intimately where I came from. She can cheer me up on my darkest days. It's as if she came perfectly happy home instead of what Kaede just told me. I feel a relaxing warmth at the thought, realizing suddenly how much I'm anticipating meeting up with Tess again. Where she goes, I go, and vice versa. Peas in a pod. Then there's June. Even the thought of her name makes it hard for me to breathe. I'm almost embarrassed by my reaction. Are June and I a good match? No. It's the first word to pop into my mind. And yet, still.

  Marie Lu

  Cheer, Home, June

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• Well, but you affirm that virtue is only elicited by temptation; - and you think that a woman cannot be too little exposed to temptation, or too little acquainted with vice, or anything connected therewith - It must be, either, that you think she is essentially so vicious, or so feeble-minded that she cannot withstand temptation, - and though she may be pure and innocent as long as she is kept in ignorance and restraint, yet, being destitute of real virtue, to teach her how to sin is at once to make her a sinner.

  Anne Bronte

  Real, Ignorance, Thinking

  Anne Bronte (2006). “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall”, p.32, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Life works on strange laws of nature (Karma). One never knows when a friend turns enemy & vice-versa. Rely on your Self; self-reliance

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Karma, Self, Law

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• She felt so old, so worn out, so far away from the best moments of her life that she even yearned for those that she remembered as the worst… Her heart of compressed ash, which had resisted the most telling blows of daily reality without strain, fell apart with the first waves of nostalgia. The need to feel sad was becoming a vice as the years eroded her. She became human in her solitude.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Heart, Reality, Blow

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• Betrayed and wronged in everything, I’ll flee this bitter world where vice is king, And seek some spot unpeopled and apart Where I’ll be free to have an honest heart. - Molière, The Misanthrope

  Moliere

  Kings, Heart, World

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• If someone speaks badly of you, do not defend yourself against the accusations, but reply; "you obviously don't know about my other vices, otherwise you would have mentioned these as well

  Epictetus

  Speak, Accusation, Wells

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• I can't expect others to share my virtues. It's good enough for me if they share my vices.

  Andre Gide

  Virtue, Good Enough, Share

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• Perhaps [James Herondale] loved vice for vice's own sake.

  Cassandra Clare

  Sake

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• His vices were the vices of his time and culture, but his virtues transcended the milieu of his life.

  Orson Scott Card

  Time, Culture, Virtue

  Orson Scott Card (2009). “Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus”, p.48, Macmillan

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• In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature, but in men it is a vice.

  Boethius

  Confidence, Ignorance, Men

  Boethius, Aeterna Press (2016). “Boethius Collection [2 Books]”, p.216, Aeterna Press

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• Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.

  Samuel Johnson

  Courage, Quality, Maintaining

  Samuel Johnson, James Boswell (1825). “The Table Talk of Dr. Johnson: Comprising Opinions and Anecdotes of Life and Literature, Men, Manners, and Morals”, p.276

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• Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.

  Henry Fielding

  Education, Learning, School

  'Joseph Andrews' (1742) bk. 3, ch. 5

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