Vices Quotations

Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome.

I feel like, big city or small town, you can relate to following your parents' footsteps or putting your own dreams on the back burner or vices that we get caught up in - that whole cycle. That's not just a small-town thing. That's a life thing.

No one ever reached the worst of a vice at one leap

In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice.

Ignorance is the primary source of all misery and vice.

Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.

Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.

It depends, because sometimes an action role can be very demanding, and sometimes a dialogue-driven character can be very demanding, and vice versa. It depends.

Evil borders upon good, and vices are confounded with virtues; as the report of good qualities is delightful to a well-disposed mind, so the relation of the contrary should not be offensive.

Oftentimes we love the thing we hate and vice versa.

It's pretty hard to say no when a vice president-elect and a president-elect ask you to be part of the national team.

So much of our lives is given over to the consideration of our imperfections that there is no time to improve our imaginary virtues. The truth is we only perfect our vices, and man is a worse creature when he dies than he was when he was born.

Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman.

I rarely drink, I don't smoke, so my vice is probably creating. I'm addicted to creating. And women.

To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.

It has been my experience that work on the screen clarifies stage portrayals and vice versa. You learn to make your face express more in making movies, and in working for the theater you have a sense of greater freedom.

For me, drawing generates thinking and vice versa.

I think Brits probably feel that Americans are more like us than vice-versa, if that makes sense. Because we get everything American over here in Britain, but yet there are things which are staunchly English that you guys don't have.

Ambition, in a private man is a vice, is in a prince the virtue.

No writer besides Shakespeare has created more memorable characters attached to vices and virtues. In even their least sympathetic characters, one senses a kind of helplessness to passion quivering between the poles of good and evil.

The superior power of population cannot be checked without producing misery or vice.

I consider nothing low but ignorance, vice, and meanness, characteristics generally found where the animal propensities predominate over the higher sentiments.

Through tattered clothes, small vices do appear. Robes and furred gowns hide all.

All institutions are prone to corruption and to the vices of their members.

A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice - but as yet unstained.

Karma brings us ever back to rebirth, binds us to the wheel of births and deaths. Good Karma drags us back as relentlessly as bad, and the chain which is wrought out of our virtues holds as firmly and as closely as that forged from our vices.

I am the worst influence. If you can't handle your vices, then I am the Devil.

I believe a great performer is someone who sounds just as great live as they do in the studio and vice versa. They should know how to work the stage.

You can learn as much about the history from reading about the present as you can vice versa, that is learning about the present through history, which is what I do for a living.

Flippancy, the most hopeless form of intellectual vice.

My secret vice is Sudoku puzzles. Can't stop playing them. My parents are accountants. I blame them entirely.

Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.

It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster.

Nor is it the least advantage to health, accruing from such a way of life, that it expose those who follow it to fewer temptations to vice, than persons who live in crowded society.

I used to smoke cigarettes, ten a day, but gave up when I was 28. Now my vice is several cups of coffee a day, which isn't great if you're prone to weak bones as I am, as caffeine can leach calcium.

I think women can be as cruel as men, and men as tender as women, and vice versa.

Food is my thing, I do not smoke or drink, so food is my vice.

Perhaps the cruelest thing ever said of Hubert Humphrey was that he had the soul of a vice president.

It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.

Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.

I hope they get something of interest out of it, but I'd rather they all hate it and I like it, instead of vice versa... I make films to please myself first, and if the audience likes them, all the better.

Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination.

I was never Vice Chair of the Troops Out Movement.

Mission accomplished? The mission in Iraq, as laid out by President Bush and Vice President Cheney, has failed.

I only wanted to get married once, so when I felt I was ready to handle it, I looked at my relationships and noticed that boyfriends get tired of girlfriends, and vice versa, but you never get tired of your friends.

A lot of vices that I've had over the years were always to make up for some sort of character deficiency, one of them being shyness.

The accumulation of numbers always augments in some measure moral corruptions, and the consequences to health of the various vices incident thereto, are well known.

If the players don't trust the coach, it is a problem, and vice versa.

You can know a person by the kind of desk he keeps. If the president of a company has a clean desk then it must be the executive vice president who is doing all the work.

I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.

You know, my role as Vice Chairman is a lot less tiring than playing matches every three days.

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

Arresting development, attacking science, and glorifying poverty is not the answer to the vices that attend prosperity.

Where the state begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa.

People don't vote for vice president, they vote for president.

I'm the only American alive or dead who presided unhappily over the removal of a vice president and a president.

Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail.

There have been times in my life that I've had a ton of vices, and my demons have run amok for years and years and years.

An actor who is good at comedy can also be very good at drama, but not necessarily vice versa.

I do adore food. If I have any vice it's eating. If I was told I could only eat one food for the rest of my life, I could put up with sausage and mash forever.

We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.

Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice.

Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice.

When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice.

The greatest moral failing is to condemn something as a moral failing: no vice is worse than being judgmental.

In a network situation, a vice president, while he's shaving, can decide your history.

We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.

It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.

Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

The passions of the young are vices in the old.

The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food.

A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.

Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.

Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.

The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.

The President has only 190 million bosses. The Vice President has 190 million and one.

We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.

No exile at the South Pole or on the summit of Mont Blanc separates us more effectively from others than the practice of a hidden vice.

Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.

My feeling about work is it's much more about the experience of doing it than the end product. Sometimes things that are really great and make lots of money are miserable to make, and vice versa.

He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

Vices are usually pleasurable, at least for the time being, and often do not disclose themselves as vices, by their effects, until after they have been practised for many years; perhaps for a lifetime.

No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.

Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.

I was so happy when they cast me in Chocolat, because it's one of my vices.

It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness.

We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.

There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.

If you can say the lyrics almost like a poem and they stand up, that's a great thing. Some songs have great lyrics and I don't like the melodies, and vice versa.

When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa.

My biggest vice is playing solitaire on my iPad. It's bad. I mean, it's ridiculous.

A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doing what is right and complying with what is wrong.

In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa.

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.

There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.

Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.

What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several.