Vices Quotes - Page 10

• After a tongue has once got the knack of lying, it is not to be imagined how impossible almost it is to reclaim it. Whence it comes to pass, that we see some men, who are otherwise very honest, so subject to this vice.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Lying, Men, Knack

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• Lying is a disgraceful vice, and one that Plutarch paints in most disgraceful colors, when he says that it is "affording testimony that one first despises God, and then fears men." It is not possible more happily to describe its horrible, disgusting, and abandoned nature; for can we imagine anything more vile than to be cowards with regard to men, and brave with regard to God.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Lying, Men, Color

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• Money is a terrible blab; she will betray the secrets of her owner, whatever he do to gag her. His virtues will creep out in her whisper; his vices she will cry aloud at the top of her tongue.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Money, Secret, Tongue

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• In some way the secret vice exhales its poison; and the evil passion, however cunningly masked, stains through to the surface.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Passion, Evil, Secret

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• It cannot be a vice in men to be sensible of their strength.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Men, Sensible

  Jean de La Bruyère, Luc de Clapiers marquis de Vauvenargues (1903). “La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims”

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• Is it against justice or reason to love ourselves? And why is self-love always a vice?

  Luc de Clapiers

  Self, Justice, Reason

  "Reflections and Maxims". Book by Luc de Clapiers, 1746.

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• History teaches us virtue, but nature never ceases to teachh us vice.

  Ludwig Borne

  Funny, Sarcasm, Virtue

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• Vices that are familiar we pardon, and only new ones reprehend.

  Publilius Syrus

  Pardon, Familiar

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• Our virtues live upon our incomes; our vices consume our capital.

  Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

  Income, Virtue

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• Children will imitate their fathers in their vices, seldom in their repentance.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Children, Father, Example

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1857). “Sermons: 1st series [-6th series].”, p.317

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• ... no community where more than one-half of the adults are disfranchised and otherwise incapacitated by law and custom, can be free from great vices. Purity is inconsistent with slavery.

  Tennessee Celeste Claflin

  Law, Community, Adults

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• ... bringing up daughters for nothing but marriage, mingles poison in the cup of domestic life, is traitorous to the virtue of both sexes, for neither suffers alone--is adverse to the happiness, to the development of conscience and to religion, and introduces to the dwellings of wretchedness and despair. The result of this degradation is pride, intemperance, licentiousness--nay, every vice, misery, and degradation.

  Harriot Kezia Hunt

  Daughter, Sex, Pride

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• We early arrive at the great discovery that there is one mind common to all individual men: that what is individual is less than what is universalthat error, vice and disease have their seat in the superficial or individual nature.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Errors, Discovery

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). “The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.11, Harvard University Press

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• We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke straps our vice. Where is the skillful swordsman who can give clean wounds, and not rip up his work with the other edge?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Rip, Evil, Giving

  Henry David Thoreau (1996). “The nature writings of Henry David Thoreau”

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• Adorn thyself with simplicity and with indifference towards the things which lie between virtue and vice. Love mankind. Follow God. The poet says that Law rules all. And it is enough to
  remember that law rules all.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Lying, Law, Simplicity

  Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.76, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• Philosophers conceive of the passions which harass us as vices into which men fall by their own fault, and, therefore, generally deride, bewail, or blame them, or execrate them, if they wish to seem unusually pious.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Fall, Passion, Men

  "Political Treatise" by Baruch Spinoza, translated by A. H. Gosset, (Ch. 1), 1883.

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• My sobriety isn't up for discussion, but as for vices, I seem to hack away at them with my invisible machete from dawn till dusk. The vice of 'more' is an ongoing theme.

  Anthony Kiedis

  Sobriety, Dawn, Ongoing

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• Our planning system was dynamite when we first put it in. The thinking was fresh; the form mattered little. It was idea oriented. We then hired a head of planning, and he hired two vice presidents, and then he hired a planner; and the books got thicker, and the printing more sophisticated, and the covers got harder, and the drawings got better.

  John Welch

  Business, Book, Thinking

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• I'm very lucky that my husband is a true partner in child-rearing. If I get home late, he gets home early or vice-versa. I travel more, and he's able to spell me when I'm gone.

  Bonnie Hammer

  Children, Husband, Home

  "Bonnie Hammer: She is Sci Fi". Interview with Porter Anderson, www.cnn.com. October 9, 2001.

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• Vice repeated is like the wandering wind, blows dust in others' eyes to spread itself.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Blow, Dust

  Cross, William Shakespeare (1989). “William Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.1036, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• For in the fatness of these pursy times
  Virtue itself of vice must pardon beg.

  William Shakespeare

  Virtue, Pardon, Fatness

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 4, l. 153

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• For there's no motion
  That tends to vice in man, but I affirm
  It is the woman's part.

  William Shakespeare

  Men

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1813). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: In Twenty-one Volumes, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, to which are Added Notes”, p.499

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• A live audience with live reactions feeds a different sort of acting that will then inform your film work, and vice versa.

  Richard McCabe

  Acting, Different, Film

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• When you become deeply involved with someone, their problems become yours, and vice versa. It's family.

  Hank Azaria

  Problem, Vice Versa, Involved

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• A woman decides about her body and her God is her business. Women who are pro-life can be just a good a Christian as a woman who is pro-choice and vice versa. You can be a good Christian and be pro-life. You can be a good Christian and be pro-choice.

  Jeremiah Wright

  Christian, Choices, Pro Life

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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