Vice Quotes

Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!

It's pretty hard to say no when a vice president-elect and a president-elect ask you to be part of the national team.

He who hates vice hates men.

The President has only 190 million bosses. The Vice President has 190 million and one.

The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.

It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.

We, Norton I, do hereby decree that the offices of President, Vice President, and Speaker of the House of Representatives are, from and after this date, abolished.

Where the state begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa.

Ambition, in a private man is a vice, is in a prince the virtue.

After being sworn in to office, vice presidents have usually been relegated to the sidelines, where they just don't get to do very much.

This point seems counter-intuitive, given the amount of conspicuous vulgarity, vice, and immorality in America. Indeed some Islamic fundamentalists argue that their regimes are morally superior to the United States because they seek to foster virtue among the citizens.

Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true.

It's better to have done because then you know what the player is going through and you understand the pressure, but then on the other hand I know a lot of people that were good players but not good coaches, and vice versa.

Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.

I never was very capable of expressing my feelings or emotions in words. I don't know whether this is the cause why I did it in music and also why I did it in painting. Or vice versa: That I had this way as an outlet. I could renounce expressing something in words.

Americans were told repeatedly by President Bush and Vice President Cheney that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. None were ever found.

Except for the title 'father,' there is no title, including 'vice president,' that I am more proud to wear than that of United States senator.

A good general rule is to state that the bouquet is better than the taste, and vice versa.

In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice.

My feeling about work is it's much more about the experience of doing it than the end product. Sometimes things that are really great and make lots of money are miserable to make, and vice versa.

The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food.

I was at the vice president's Christmas party. I thought that his speech was spectacular, and I knew that it was a very emotional and difficult thing for him to do, but I admonished him for not waiting just one more stinking day.

So if the players trust the coach, it's not a problem. If the players don't trust the coach, it is a problem, and vice versa.

Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.

I always listen to music, my passion and vice is music, I will be denied access to heaven because of the number of CDs I own, and I have gluttony for all types and colours of music.

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.

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