355 Quotes About Vices

I have so great a contempt and detestation for meanness, that I could sooner make a friend of one who had committed murder, than of a person who could be capable, in any instance, of the former vice. Under meanness, I comprehend dishonesty; under dishonesty, ingratitude; under ingratitude, irreligion; and under this latter, every species of vice and immorality in human nature.

There are thorns everywhere, but along the path of vice, roses bloom above them.

The mechanism that directs government cannot be virtuous, because it is impossible to thwart every crime, to protect oneself from every criminal without being criminal too; that which directs corrupt mankind must be corrupt itself; and it will never be by means of virtue, virtue being inert and passive, that you will maintain control over vice, which is ever active: the governor must be more energetic than the governed.

The French like burgers, Madonna and Miami Vice.

When I was a young reporter, the great vice among journalists was whiskey. Today, it's cynicism.

Flattery was formerly a vice; it has now become the fashion.

Every vice has its excuse ready.

Vices that are familiar we pardon, and only new ones reprehend.

Restfulness is a quality for cattle; the virtues are all active, life is alert.