Vice Quotes

Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
~Victor Hugo


The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
~Bertrand Russell


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


Craftiness is a quality in the mind and a vice in the character.
~Unknown Author


A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.
~Gilbert K. Chesterton


Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.
~Francis Bacon, Sr.


Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.
~Henry Ward Beecher


We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone. Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice leaves its never-so-little scar.
~William James


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


I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
~Barry Goldwater


The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.
~William Hazlitt


Christianity gave Eros poison to drink: he did not die of it but degenerated - into vice.
~Friedrich Nietzsche


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


Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.
~Voltaire


He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place.
~Charles Caleb Colton


The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.
~William Blake


It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd.
~Henry Miller


As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
~Albert Einstein


I won vice president of my student body in high school. That doesn't mean anything.
~Al Sharpton


A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.
~Theodore Roosevelt


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


It's a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
~Seneca


Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.
~Alexander Pope


Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it.
~Confucius


The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.
~William Blake


Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.
~Bertrand Russell


The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.
~Arthur Erickson


The worst vice of a fanatic is his sincerity.
~Oscar Wilde


He hadn't a single redeeming vice.
~Oscar Wilde


Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
~Eleanor Roosevelt