quotations about vice
Virtue makes us appear amiable to others; vice, contemptible even to ourselves.
NORMAN MACDONALD
Maxims and Moral Reflections
He hasn't a single redeeming vice.
OSCAR WILDE
Epigrams: An Anthology
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
His thoughts were low;
To vice industrious; but to nobler deeds
Timorous and slothful.
JOHN MILTON
Paradise Lost
He that is a drunkard is qualified for all vice.
WELLINS CALCOTT
Thoughts Moral and Divine
Do but see his vice;
'Tis to his virtues a just equinox,
The one as long as the other.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Othello
The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices
Make instruments to plague us.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
King Lear
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
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
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