355 Quotes About Vices

Unlike other vices, cruelty, alas, is never boring.

It can fairly be said of John Smith that he had all the virtues of a Scottish presbyterian, but none of the vices.

Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.

The main vice of capitalism is the uneven distribution of prosperity. The main vice of socialism is the even distribution of misery.

What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.

A picture is a thing which requires as much knavery, as much malice, and as much vice as the perpetration of a crime. Make it untrue and add an accent of truth.

Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it.

Art is vice. One does not wed it, one rapes it.

Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.