Top 55 Vices Quotes

A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

As the most extravagant errors were received among the established articles of their faith, so the most infamous vices obtained in their practice, and were indulged not only with impunity, but authorized by the sanction of their laws.

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.

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

I am a technological activist. I have a political agenda. I am in favor of basic human rights: to free speech, to use any information and technology, to purchase and use recreational drugs, to enjoy and purchase so-called ‘vices’, to be free of intruders, and to privacy.

I quit smoking the day I found out I was pregnant, which was nine years ago. But I’ll still smoke in a movie. I have other vices, you know, like potato chips and chardonnay – but not together.

The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.

Let them show me a cottage where there are not the same vices of which they accuse the courts.

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

Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.

For me, I go in and play a few Christian songs for an audience, and now I have people come up and not tell me I’m great, but tell me that my music is helping save their lives, helping them in the Lord, and helping them end their vices.

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

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.

Have not prisons – which kill all will and force of character in man, which enclose within their walls more vices than are met with on any other spot of the globe – always been universities of crime?

Life would be pretty boring if we didn’t have vices.

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.

I’ve spent a lot of my life forcing myself to do the right thing, and nowadays, I’ve just forgotten about all that. It’s far more romantic just to let all your vices and fetishes come out and shine.

Although all the good arts serve to draw man’s mind away from vices and lead it toward better things, this function can be more fully performed by this art, which also provides extraordinary intellectual pleasure.

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.

I am a great fan of veteran artistes N.S. Krishnan and M.R. Radha. They had great social awareness and were never afraid to raise their voices against vices in society.

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.

Coercion may prevent many transgressions; but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom may lead to many transgressions, but it lends even to vices a less ignoble form.

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.

We’ve all got vices, and we’re all freakin’ trying.

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

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

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

We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.

I began to learn about the camera and the actors. That gave me a lot of the skills. At the same time, advertising gives you a lot of vices, for example, an obsession for a superficial look, but at the same time, it gives you the capacity to synthesize the story – tell a story in one minute.

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

We all have our vices, you know. One of my vices is ice cream.

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

I have a number of vices, one of which is moderation.

It is the knowledge that all men have weaknesses and that many have vices that makes government necessary.

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.

Most of the vices and mortal sins condemned today correspond to inclinations that were purely adaptive or at least harmless in primitive man.

I have a dogmatic certainty: God is in every person’s life. God is in everyone’s life. Even if the life of a person has been a disaster, even if it is destroyed by vices, drugs or anything else – God is in this person’s life. You can – you must – try to seek God in every human life.

Right now, I’m very healthy. I have no vices left. Except sugary breakfast cereal. And absinthe, of course.

Vices are often habits rather than passions.

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.

Nature, who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium, has sometimes need of vices and sometimes of virtues, inspires now this impulse, now that one, in accordance with what she requires.

I want to tell all the dreamers out there that they should stay away from vices if they want to succeed; that they need training, guidance, and support.

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

As a pastor, I addressed the sorts of issues I see people struggling with most and the issues talked about most directly and most frequently in the New Testament. That leads us to recurring concerns with sexual immorality, relational sins, and vices associated with the breaking of the Ten Commandments.

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

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.

Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Here’s a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once.

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