Vice Quotes

A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.

I believe a great performer is someone who sounds just as great live as they do in the studio and vice versa. They should know how to work the stage.

No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.

You can know a person by the kind of desk he keeps. If the president of a company has a clean desk then it must be the executive vice president who is doing all the work.

Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.

Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it.

There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.

Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.

Having loved the Stones all the time I was growing up, I wasn't about to see them go and split up. It got very close to it in the 80s, when Mick thought that Keith hated him and vice versa.

Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.

Fast cars are my only vice.

Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.

Listen, I have a great affection and respect for Joe Biden. I think he's been a great vice president. He's taken on a lot of tough assignments for our administration.

Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.

Ignorance is the primary source of all misery and vice.

I find very often that very ugly women have really handsome men and vice versa because they don't have any competition. Sometimes handsome men have avoided me.

The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it.

I was never Vice Chair of the Troops Out Movement.

As an actor, you don't often get a chance to know exactly the impact of what the audience is seeing, even though you can ask where the frame is. A move that feels tiny can be huge, and vice versa.

Mr. Chairman, delegates, and fellow citizens: I am honored by the support of this convention for vice president of the United States. I accept the duty to help lead our nation out of a jobs crisis and back to prosperity - and I know we can do this.

No vice is so bad as advice.

So the tough questions that have been asked of Sarah Palin thus far just have been about the fact that she doesn't know anything and isn't ready to be vice president. That's fair game and it has nothing to do with her gender.

Gluttony is not a secret vice.

Vice president - it has such a nice ring to it!

Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps.

What has the women's movement learned from Geraldine Ferraro's candidacy for vice president? Never get married.

I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.

I think in Vice and American Me I played very silent, rigid characters and people remember them.

In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.

It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness.