Vices Quotes

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

Experience, Few, Virtues

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.
Benjamin Franklin

Peace, War, Find

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

Admire, Dislike, Virtues

Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.
Theodore Roosevelt

Greatest, Envy, Deep

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

Pretty, Problem, Sure

Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Highest, Virtues, Passions

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.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Today, Night, Themselves

Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Men, Through, Virtues

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.
Ron White

Life, Times, Run

Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Nature, Good, Seems

Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!
Charles Dickens

Sometimes, Virtues, Excess

The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Put, Interest, Virtues

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

Virtue, Despise

When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Leaving, Leave, Imagine

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

Themselves, Ourselves, Ladder

The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Word, Virtue, Useful

Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Reality, Often, Virtues

The name and pretense of virtue is as serviceable to self-interest as are real vices.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Real, Name, Virtue

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

Great, Men, Society

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.
Horace

Wrong, Pride, Between

A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.
Plutarch

Few, Virtues, Darken

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

Greatest, Minds, Capable

Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence.
Samuel Butler

Good, Rather, Half

Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Good, Men, Government

He who busies himself with things other than improvement of his own self becomes perplexed in darkness and entangled in ruin. His evil spirits immerse him deep in vices and make his bad actions seem handsome.
Ali ibn Abi Talib

Bad, Evil, Deep

Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Yourself, Others, Virtue

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

Disaster, Virtues

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

Corruption, Members, Prone

As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt.
Moliere

Men, Why, Reason

The passions of the young are vices in the old.
Joseph Joubert

Young, Old, Passions

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