355 Quotes About Vices

Lust is a sharp spur to vice, which always putteth the affections into a false gallop.

Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues. [Lat., Licet ipsa vitium sit ambitio, frequenter tamen causa virtutem est.]

There is even the dignity of vice.

The cunning tempter, by avoiding the grossness of vice, often silences objections.

Envy ... is one form of a vice, partly moral, partly intellectual, which consists in seeing things never in themselves but only in their relations.

Being Vice President is difficult. Don't make it tougher.

I suppose the implication of that is the president and the vice president and myself and Colin Powell just fell off a turnip truck to take these jobs.

Whilst weakness and timidity keep us to our duty, virtue has often all the honor.

What often prevents our abandoning ourselves to a single vice is, our having more than one.