Top 282 Vice Quotes

‘Vice Squad’ needed to be real if it was going to have the impact that I wanted it to have.

Yeah, I associate every sound with a color and vice versa.

For me, cinema is a vice. I love it intimately.

I’m an artist and a journalist. I travel around the world very often for ‘Vice Magazine,’ and I draw and I write about prisons, about conflict zones.

I’m a big believer in comedy writers. I’ve always defended the honor of all comedy writers. It’s extremely difficult, but I’ve always felt that comedy writers far more easily can move toward drama than vice versa.

President Joe Biden is unfit to hold the office of the Presidency. His pattern of abuse of power as President Obama’s Vice President is lengthy and disturbing.

I don’t think that everything is a zero-sum game in which, when the president of the United States says something, that means that he is pro-Palestinian and anti-Israeli, or vice versa.

If you are the wife of a governor or the wife of a vice president, I think you can be prepared for it.

Renown is something people have always wanted, but maybe what’s modern is that it’s considered a virtue, this desire, rather than a vice. I might be wrong about this.

I’ve never been a vice president. Ever. Always chairman.

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

I think every actor should direct at least once and vice versa.

In football, if you don’t have the best O-line or receivers, maybe you’re not as good of a quarterback as you can be. And it goes vice versa. If you’re an average quarterback and you have a great O-line and great receivers, your play gets lifted.

Suppose something would happen to the president, who would be in charge? The Vice President. Joe Biden? You have got to be kidding today when you say the Taliban’s not our enemy.

All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.

Because impudence is a vice, it does not follow that modesty is a virtue; it is built upon shame, a passion in our nature, and may be either good or bad according to the actions performed from that motive.

The way Jughead talks to Archie and vice versa is very much the way I would talk to my twin.

‘Kraken’ is a very undisciplined book. That’s a gamble. If it doesn’t come off, it’s disastrous. But there are pleasures, I think, to a meandering lack of discipline that you can’t get the other way, and vice versa.

I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.

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

I never was very capable of expressing my feelings or emotions in words. I don’t know whether this is the cause why I did it in music and also why I did it in painting. Or vice versa: That I had this way as an outlet. I could renounce expressing something in words.

Creators are what bring the eyeballs to platforms, and vice versa. Sort of a chicken-and-egg thing, because you can’t have creators and no platform.

Oftentimes we love the thing we hate and vice versa.

Being an editor doesn’t make you a better writer – or vice versa. The worst thing any editor can do is be in competition with his writer.

What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends.

The vice president can play a real role in that, in helping solve some of the biggest problems in the country.

We have always adapted ourselves to the songs instead of vice versa.

Different mediums are giving a different kind of satisfaction. The reason I do television, if I do web for the same reason, I will not be able to sustain it, and vice versa.

I think writing and reading are completely synergistic; not necessarily in that one has to be a good reader to be a good writer or vice versa, but that they so inform each other.

I actually prepared Vice President Biden for his debate in the last election. I played Sarah Palin. It’s a little tough debating a woman.

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

The White House is not where power comes from in this country. The cities and the local communities of this nation are prepared to save Washington – and not vice versa.

Some things that work in a comic don’t work in a film, and vice versa.

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.

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

I’m always interested in what we’re not being shown. So if you’re playing ostensibly a quote-unquote ‘baddie,’ what are their good sides, and vice versa.

That’s acting for you. ‘White Queen’ has English playing Welsh and vice versa.

I love to see technology from a design perspective and vice versa. I am a ‘Desigineer.’

Gluttony is not a secret vice.

I am better at my job for being a mother and vice versa.

We write in ways that, we generally hope, reflect real life, or at least look familiar to humans. And in life, recurring themes are a recurring theme. We never quite conquer a pet vice or a relationship pattern or a communication habit. We’re haunted by our particular demons.

As a dad, you are the Vice President of the executive branch of parenting. It doesn’t matter what your personality is like, you will always be Al Gore to your wife’s Bill Clinton. She feels the pain and you are the annoying nerd telling them to turn off the lights.

But put it this way: if I have a bad day keeping, I know I can put it right with the bat, and vice versa. When it all comes together, happy days.

Vice President Dick Cheney reportedly has been disturbed over what he sees as the erosion of presidential powers since the Watergate scandal and has urged Bush to take a stronger stand against what Cheney sees as congressional intrusions into the executive branch.

Everyone in my country understands that Russia cannot do without Europe and that, vice versa, Europe cannot do without Russia. We depend on cooperation.

The difference is too nice – Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.

Justified or not, the Supreme Court has a kind of sacred status in American life. For whatever reason, Presidents can safely run against Congress, and vice versa, but I think there is an inherent popular aversion to assaults on the court itself. Perhaps it has to do with an instinctive belief that life needs umpires.

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

There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true.

In midlife, I feel that my tendency to acquire books is rather like someone smoking two packs a day: it’s a terrible vice that I wish I could shuck.

As far as I’m concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.

Vice, by comparison with terrible accidents, has its own peculiar explanation. For, in a way, it does occur in accordance with the rationale of nature, and its occurrence is not, so to speak, useless in relation to the whole world. For otherwise, the good would not exist, either.

In high school, you don’t play much defense. It’s mostly offense. In college, it’s vice versa, and that’s what I tried to do.

Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.

Vice’ came up really quickly. I was doing something else, and I got a call, and I said, ‘Absolutely.’ It wasn’t a lot of time to prepare. I love a lot of lead-in time. But I jumped in.

Rob is incredibly supportive. When I work he takes care of the kids and vice versa.

I definitely want to be in a situation where I’m playing with players that are getting me better every day by pushing me and vice versa.

It is the besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which the masses of men exhibit their tyranny.

While it’s true that the vice presidential slot isn’t the most important thing on people’s minds in a presidential election, these debates frequently matter.

I had a hard time admitting to myself that I was addicted to sweets. Once I finally realized that was my vice, I completely cut it out for 30 days to try and clean myself of all processed sugar. After that, I slowly incorporated moderate amounts of sugar into my everyday lifestyle.

This point seems counter-intuitive, given the amount of conspicuous vulgarity, vice, and immorality in America. Indeed some Islamic fundamentalists argue that their regimes are morally superior to the United States because they seek to foster virtue among the citizens.

To me, makeup is fashion and vice versa. What I dress and what I wear always needs to work with my makeup, which is usually the same anyway.