355 Quotes About Vices

Who was it who said that every virtue contains its corresponding vice? C.S. Lewis? Virginia Woolf? You forget. But it has always worried you that what the virtue of wit contained was the vice of scorn.

A thirst for gold, The beggar's vice, which can but overwhelm The meanest hearts.

That low vice, curiosity!

Fast cars are my only vice.

If it is true that cowardice is the most grave vice, then the dog, at least, is not guilty of it.

Cowardice was undoubtedly one of the most terrible vices - thus spoke Yeshua Ha-Nozri. 'No, philosopher, I disagree with you: it is the most terrible vice!

He, who practices right, but in the hope of acquiring great renown, is very near to vice.

albinos aren't reproached for having pink eyes and whitish hair, why should they hold it again me for being a lesbian? It's a question of nature: my queerness isn't a vice, isn't 'deliberate,' and harms no one.

When we envy another, we make their virtue our vice.