Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Hume

The end of all moral speculations is to teach us our duty; and, by proper representations of the deformity of vice and beauty of virtue, beget correspondent habits, and engage us to avoid the one, and embrace the other.

Augustus Hare

Crimes sometimes shock us too much; vices almost always too little.

Benjamin Disraeli

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

William Shakespeare

For in the fatness of these pursy times Virtue itself of vice must pardon beg.

Charles Caleb Colton

The moral cement of all society is virtue; it unites and preserves, while vice separates and destroys.

Arthur Helps

The world will tolerate many vices, but not their diminutives.

Juvenal

Vice deceives us when dressed in the garb of virtue.

Juvenal

The love of popularity holds you in a vice.

Diane Arbus

One thing that struck me early is that you don’t put into a photograph what’s going to come out. Or, vice versa, what comes out is not what you put in.

David Brin

What point was there in pursuing an ever-elusive popularity?

Al Gore

The presidency is more than a popularity contest.

Baltasar Gracian

There must be something good in a thing that pleases so many; even if it cannot be explained, it is certainly enjoyed.

Donald Fagen

Popularity has everything to do with business and nothing to do with music.

Ravi Shankar

I think musicians and actors have all these problems, because of the popularity and the opportunity.

Johnny Depp

That would really send my popularity to the depths.

Jiro Yamaguchi

What we're seeing is a result of Koizumi's diminishing popularity -- the 'Koizumi effect' is wearing off.

Van Orden

He never put on airs. He never tried to outdo anybody. Because of that, his popularity simply grew,

Mia Wasikowska

Popularity is very inconsistent. Sometimes it's there, sometimes it's not. It usually just comes in waves.