Top 80 Vices Quotes

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.

How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.

I’m a sucker for fries. It’s definitely one of my biggest vices. My biggest savory vice for sure.

The virtue of some people consists wholly in condemning the vices in others.

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.

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

Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail.

Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

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.

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

Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised.

No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.

The passions of the young are vices in the old.

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.

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

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.

I feel like, big city or small town, you can relate to following your parents‘ footsteps or putting your own dreams on the back burner or vices that we get caught up in – that whole cycle. That’s not just a small-town thing. That’s a life thing.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

French fries and vino are my vices.

The word of God is full of sad and grave counsel, full of the knowledge of God, of examples of virtues, and of correction of vices, of the end of this life, and of the life to come.

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

Moliere exaggerates common vices of mankind: lust, greed, misanthropy, hypocrisy. We all have a touch of these.

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

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.

Nobody on this earth is perfect. Everybody has their flaws; everybody has their dark secrets and vices.

We can endure neither our vices nor the remedies for them.

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?

Karma brings us ever back to rebirth, binds us to the wheel of births and deaths. Good Karma drags us back as relentlessly as bad, and the chain which is wrought out of our virtues holds as firmly and as closely as that forged from our vices.

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

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

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

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

A commission and an original are two different things, and both have their virtues and vices. A commission is a bit more collaborative, in that you outline the story that you think should be told, and then you write it. And then, there are notes and you change it, in the conventional studio system.

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

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.

I didn’t have any vices before the Internet. There are a lot of cracks in the day, moments where you don’t know what to do next, so you have a little hole where you look at your phone. You want something that will mean you’re not alone in that moment.

Arresting development, attacking science, and glorifying poverty is not the answer to the vices that attend prosperity.

On the evidence we have, the meritocratic ideal ends up being just as undemocratic as the old emphasis on inheritance and tradition, and it forges an elite that has an aristocracy‘s vices (privilege, insularity, arrogance) without the sense of duty, self-restraint and noblesse oblige that WASPs at their best displayed.

Left to my own vices, all I would own is a Corvette, and it would be broken down.

We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.

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

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.

Man’s natural character is to imitate; that of the sensitive man is to resemble as closely as possible the person whom he loves. It is only by imitating the vices of others that I have earned my misfortunes.

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

I know no man who feels deeper disgust than I do at the ambition, avarice, and profligacy of the priesthood, as well because every one of these vices is odious in itself, as because each of them separately and all of them together are utterly abhorrent in men making profession of a life dedicated to God.

Human depravity originates in the vices of political constitution.

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.

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

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 had plenty of vices growing up.

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

Everything I had been taught to regard as a vice – and I still regard them as vices – under Thatcherism was in fact a virtue: Greed, selfishness, no care for the weaker, sharp elbows, sharp knees.

I am the worst influence. If you can’t handle your vices, then I am the Devil.

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.

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

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

You cannot oppose reasoning to pride, the principal of all the vices, since, by its very nature, the proud man refuses to listen to it.

The modern Left is not driven by fairness. It is guided by an ideology of greed and envy. Those are vices, not virtues.

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

Vices are simply the errors which a man makes in his search after his own happiness. Unlike crimes, they imply no malice toward others, and no interference with their persons or property.

It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.

Avoid sloth, the mother of all vices!

One of my last few vices is coffee, but with a spot of almond or soymilk, it’s never tasted better!

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.

A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.

People ask me, how was university; I say it was boring and it wasn’t for me. But if you wanna go, that’s cool. I’m not out to lead people astray, but everyone has their vices.

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

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.

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

Vices are often habits rather than passions.

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

Zedillo’s lack of political savvy is a personal flaw. But his insulated and elitist governing style reflect the age-old vices of the political system itself.

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

The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.

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.