Vice Quotes

The disgrace of others often keeps tender minds from vice.

I ask the vice president to stop dodging the issue with legalese, and acknowledge his continued ties with Halliburton to the American people.

It has always seemed slightly uncomfortable, the idea of politicised musicians. Very few of them are clever enough to do it; if they're good at the political side, the music side suffers, and vice versa.

Vice stirs up war, virtue fights.

No. 1, Halliburton. Certainly, if they've overcharged they should be whacked and whacked good, but the idea that the vice president somehow is involved in this, whether they got contracts because of him, that's nonsense.

I think women can be as cruel as men, and men as tender as women, and vice versa.

Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice.

I'd rather not be known as the Vice President's lesbian daughter.

Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.

What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends.

Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.

The pursuit of pretty formulas and neat theorems can no doubt quickly degenerate into a silly vice, but so can the quest for austere generalities which are so very general indeed that they are incapable of application to any particular.

It is the besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which the masses of men exhibit their tyranny.

Remember, no one decides who they're going to vote for based on the vice president. I mean that literally.

What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several.

Religion is a means of exploitation employed by the strong against the weak; religion is a cloak of ambition, injustice and vice.

I rarely drink, I don't smoke, so my vice is probably creating. I'm addicted to creating. And women.

Four years of Jimmy Carter gave us two titanic Reagan landslides, peace and prosperity for eight blessed years - and even a third term for his feckless vice president, George H.W. Bush.

Palin was a political Hail Mary, a long bomb in the closing minutes of a game that John McCain and Co. were certain to lose. They didn't care if she had the policy or political or emotional capacity to serve as vice president, let alone president. They were willing to drive the country off a cliff, if that's what it took to win.

By vulgarity I mean that vice of civilization which makes man ashamed of himself and his next of kin, and pretend to be somebody else.

In a network situation, a vice president, while he's shaving, can decide your history.

Avarice is the vice of declining years.

To all the rest of his Absurdities, (for vice is always unreasonable,) he adds one more, who expects that Vertue from another which he won't practise himself.

What a pity it is that we have no amusements in England but vice and religion!

Oftentimes we love the thing we hate and vice versa.

An actor who is good at comedy can also be very good at drama, but not necessarily vice versa.

Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.

This is the great vice of academicism, that it is concerned with ideas rather than with thinking.

In Washington, I found myself as a 31-year-old in a room with the president, vice president, and secretaries of state and defense, and I was unfazed by it. But get me around a rock star I grew up with and I have trouble completing sentences.

Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.