Vices Quotes - Page 6

• No one is born without vices, and he is the best man who is encumbered with the least.

  Horace

  Men, Born

  Horace (1850). “Works”, p.169

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• Most virtue lies between two vices.

  Horace

  Lying, Two, Virtue

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• Virtue consists in avoiding vice, and is the highest wisdom.
  [Lat., Virtus est vitium fugere, et sapientia prima.]

  Horace

  Virtue, Avoiding, Highest

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• Pride eradicates all vices but itself.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Pride

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• Pride is handsome, economical; pride eradicates so many vices, letting none subsist but itself, that it seems as if it were a great gain to exchange vanity for pride.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Pride, Vanity, Handsome

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.635, Modern Library

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• Those who have resources within themselves, who can dare to live alone, want friends the least, but, at the same time, best know how to prize them the most. But no company is far preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Society, Disease, Want

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.128

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• If misery be the effect of virtue, it ought to be reverenced; if of ill-fortune, to be pitied; and if of vice, not to be insulted, because it is perhaps itself a punishment adequate to the crime by which it was produced.

  Samuel Johnson

  Punishment, Adequate, Misery

  Samuel Johnson (1810). “The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series Edited with Prefaces, Biographical and Critical”, p.267

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• Tis all in vain to keep a constant pother
  About one vice and fall into another.

  Alexander Pope

  Fall, Vain, Constant

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• 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.

  Alexander Pope

  Want, Virtue, Advantage

  Alexander Pope, Daniel Clark (1824). “An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles, to H. St. John, Lord Bolingbroke”, p.51

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• Sometimes virtue starves while vice is fed.

  Alexander Pope

  Sometimes, Virtue, Feds

  Alexander Pope (1847). “The works of Alexander Pope, with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author [&c.] by W. Roscoe”, p.135

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• I hate when vice can bolt her arguments,
  And virtue has no tongue to check her pride.

  John Milton

  Hate, Pride, Tongue

  John Milton (1842). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors; and with Some Account of the Life and Writings of Milton, Derived Principally from Original Documents in Her Majesty's State-paper Office”, p.144

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• Virtue that wavers is not virtue, but vice revolted from itself, and after a while returning. The actions of just and pious men do not darken in their middle course.

  John Milton

  Men, Action, Virtue

  John Milton, James Augustus St. John (1871). “The Prose Works of John Milton ...: With a Preface, Preliminary Remarks, and Notes”, p.469

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• My rule of thumb is, what Siskel and Ebert like, I don't, and vice versa.

  David Lynch

  Thumbs, Vice Versa

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• Cigarettes are pretty much my worst vice, and I even stopped smoking for 20 years. I spend most of my free time with my family and working on art.

  David Lynch

  Art, Years, Smoking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Sadly, the timing's never been right. There have been men who would have married me but I didn't feel the same, and vice versa.

  Cherie Lunghi

  Men, Married, Timing

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• Aesthetic culture is not the high-road to all the virtues, and, indeed, certain of the vices have been known to infest it. Neither, on the other hand, is there any special grace in ugliness. Art is only utterance. It must express something; and the vital question is, what does it express?

  Lewis Foreman Day

  Art, Hands, Grace

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• adolescence is a sort of underworld we have to live through. Everything is in us, even vice and crime. At the same time we discover free will. I wonder that it doesn't tear us off our bases for good and all.

  Grace Zaring Stone

  Tears, Wonder, Free Will

  Ethel Vance, Grace Zaring Stone (1942). “Reprisal”

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• [On Las Vegas:] ... The City That Never Sleeps. The City That Sins and Smiles and Lives On the Edge. The city where vices become virtues, become what everyone is here to do.

  Karen Kijewski

  Sleep, Las Vegas, Cities

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• It seems to me that liberal and humane people, of whom there are many among us, would, if they were asked to rank the vices, put cruelty first. Intuitively they would choose cruelty as the worst thing we do.

  Judith N. Shklar

  People, Firsts, Cruelty

  Judith N. Shklar (1984). “Ordinary Vices”, p.44, Harvard University Press

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• I want to use things I learn about writing in my acting, and vice versa.

  Katie Chang

  Writing, Acting, Use

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• Nobody is surprised that women writers accurately represent male characters over and over again, no doubt because everybody knows that women understand men much better than vice-versa.

  Peter Straub

  Character, Men, Doubt

  "PETER STRAUB: Connoisseur of Fear". Interview with Paula Guran, www.darkecho.com. June 1997.

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• Religion is a personal, private matter and parents, not public school officials, should decide their children's religious training. We should not have teacher-led prayers in public schools, and school officials should never favor one religion over another, or favor religion over no religion (or vice versa). I also believe that schools should not restrict students' religious liberties. The free exercise of faith is the fundamental right of every American, and that right doesn't stop at the schoolhouse door.

  George W. Bush

  Teacher, Religious, Prayer

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• I regret that a private comment I made to the vice presidential candidate made it through the public airways.

  George W. Bush

  Regret, Humor, Presidential

  "Bush makes major league gaffe". www.theguardian.com. September 5, 2000.

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• It is incredibly presumptive for somebody who has not yet earned his party's nomination to start speculating about vice presidents.

  George W. Bush

  Party, Humor, Political

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• It is the restrictions placed on vice by our social code which makes its pursuit so peculiarly agreeable.

  Kenneth Grahame

  Social, Restriction, Pursuit

  Kenneth Grahame (2016). “Pagan Papers”, p.22, The Floating Press

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