Vices Quotes

As the most extravagant errors were received among the established articles of their faith, so the most infamous vices obtained in their practice, and were indulged not only with impunity, but authorized by the sanction of their laws.

Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.

I am the worst influence. If you can't handle your vices, then I am the Devil.

There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.

We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.

The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.

Vices are often habits rather than passions.

The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.

It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.

Let them show me a cottage where there are not the same vices of which they accuse the courts.

Evil borders upon good, and vices are confounded with virtues; as the report of good qualities is delightful to a well-disposed mind, so the relation of the contrary should not be offensive.

Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.

We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.

As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt.

Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Through tattered clothes, small vices do appear. Robes and furred gowns hide all.

We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.

Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.

Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.

There have been times in my life that I've had a ton of vices, and my demons have run amok for years and years and years.

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.

Here's a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once.

The passions of the young are vices in the old.

For me, I go in and play a few Christian songs for an audience, and now I have people come up and not tell me I'm great, but tell me that my music is helping save their lives, helping them in the Lord, and helping them end their vices.

Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being.

Man's natural character is to imitate; that of the sensitive man is to resemble as closely as possible the person whom he loves. It is only by imitating the vices of others that I have earned my misfortunes.

Have not prisons - which kill all will and force of character in man, which enclose within their walls more vices than are met with on any other spot of the globe - always been universities of crime?

The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.

We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.