Vice Quotes

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.

All is extremely genteel; and there is almost as much repose as in the golden saloons of the contiguous palaces. At any rate, if there be as much vice, there is as little crime.

The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.

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.

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.

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.

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.