Quotes about Vices

"It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues."
-Abraham Lincoln

"He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire."
-Sir Winston Churchill

"The gods are just, and of our pleasant vicesMake instruments to plague us."
-William Shakespeare

"The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues."
-Rene Descartes

"Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy."
-Seneca

"Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices."
-Benjamin Franklin

"It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations."
-Walter Bagehot

"It is a great thing to know our vices."
-Cicero

"Hate no one; hate their vices, not themselves."
-J. G. C. Brainard

"Of all the creatures that were made, man is the most detestable. Of the entire brood he is the only one--the solitary one--that possesses malice. That is the basest of all instincts, passions, vices--the most hateful. He is the only creature that has pain for sport, knowing it to be pain. Also--in all the list he is the only creature that has a nasty mind."
-Mark Twain

"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 abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift."
-Seneca

"What once were vices are manners now."
-Seneca

"What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one. Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core."
-Hannah Arendt

"What is public history but a register of the successes and disappointments, the vices, the follies and the quarrels of those who engage in contention for power."
-William Paley

"No one can shed light on vices he does not have or affliction he has never experienced."
-Juan De Mairena

"One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas."
-Dorothy Nevill

"We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by those images we have put in their place."
-Daniel J. Boorstin

"Of all the vices drinking is the most incompatible with greatness."
-Sir Walter Scott

"AGE, n. That period of life in which we compound for the vices that we still cherish by reviling those that we have no longer the enterprise to commit."
-Ambrose Bierce

"Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years."
-William G. Golding

"Nor is it always in the most distinguished achievements that men's virtues or vices may be best discovered: but very often an action of small note, a short saying, or a jest, shall distinguish a person's real character more than the greatest sieges, or the most important battle."
-Plutarch

"HERMIT, n. A person whose vices and follies are not sociable."
-Ambrose Bierce

"The virtue of some people consists wholly in condemning the vices in others."
-Herbert Samuel

"The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues."
-Elizabeth Taylor

"EAVESDROP, v.i. Secretly to overhear a catalogue of the crimes and vices of another or yourself. A lady with one of her ears applied To an open keyhole heard, inside, Two female gossips in converse free - The subject engaging them was she. 'I think,' said one, 'and my husband thinks That she's a prying, inquisitive minx!' As soon as no more of it she could ."
-Ambrose Bierce

"Why didn't I fall for all the vices of young stardom? My dad would have beaten the s--- out of me if I had gone the drug route. I'm not kidding. Plus, I never really felt the need for it. I mean, I'll go out and party. But I've also had the good sense not to even drink too much. I've also seen my friends get into trouble. I will walk up to a friend and say you're drinking way too much."
-Brian Austin Green

"Data theft and tampering are emerging vices in storage and backup industry and our system would checkmate it."
-Soumitra Agarwal

"IDLENESS, n. A model farm where the devil experiments with seeds of new sins and promotes the growth of staple vices."
-Ambrose Bierce