VICE QUOTES V

quotations about vice

Virtue makes us appear amiable to others; vice, contemptible even to ourselves.

NORMAN MACDONALD

Maxims and Moral Reflections

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No man e'er reached the heights of vice at first.

JUVENAL

attributed, Encyclopædia of Quotations: A Treasury of Wisdom, Wit and Humor, Odd Comparisons and Proverbs

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Vices are of two kinds, the beastly and the devilish. By his beastly vices, man puts himself below the beasts; the devilish vices have a degree of wickedness that goes far beyond the human.

IMMANUEL KANT

Lectures on Ethics

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Ah me! from real happiness we stray,
By vice bewilder'd; vice which always leads.
However fair at first, to wilds of woe.

JAMES THOMSON

Agamemnon

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The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices
Make instruments to plague us.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

King Lear


Do but see his vice;
'Tis to his virtues a just equinox,
The one as long as the other.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Othello

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His thoughts were low;
To vice industrious; but to nobler deeds
Timorous and slothful.

JOHN MILTON

Paradise Lost

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He that is a drunkard is qualified for all vice.

WELLINS CALCOTT

Thoughts Moral and Divine

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Inherent vice is a characteristic intrinsic to an object that contributes to its self-destruction; essentially, it causes the object to self-destruct.

LAIRD BORRELLI-PERSSON

"A Conservator's View of Rei Kawakubo", Vogue, April 24, 2017


My faults and vices are legion (that means I have a lot of them), and for some reason I don't have any problem confessing it to you. Maybe it is because I figure all of my shortcomings are so obvious to everyone, it's just better for me to go ahead and come clean about it.

LARRY CASE

"Keep it fun for young turkey hunters", Chattanooga Times Free Press, April 13, 2017