Quotes on vices
The Anglo-Saxon conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't; it just keeps you from enjoying it.
Madariaga, Salvador de
When our vices desert us, we flatter ourselves that we are deserting our vices.
Rochefoucauld, François Duc de La
It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.
Bagehot, Walter
There are two types of people in this world, good and bad. The good sleep better, but the bad seem to enjoy the waking hours much more.
Allen, Woody
If we escape punishment for our vices, why should we complain if we are not rewarded for our virtues?
Collins, John Churton
Loud indignation against vice often stands for virtue in the eyes of bigots.
Petit-Senn, J.
Without enthusiasm, virtue functions not at all, and vice only poorly.
McLaughlin, Mignon
Idleness is the beginning of all vices.
Proverb
We are more inclined to regret our virtues than our vices; but only the very honest will admit this.
Jackson, Holbrook
Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners - your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards - who dishonor the vices and bring them into bad repute.
Wilder, Thornton
Our virtues and vices couple with one another, and get children that resemble both their parents.
Savile, George
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
Russell, Bertrand
There is more than a morsel of truth in the saying, "He who hates vice hates mankind."
Dixon, W. MacNeile
Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
The vices of the rich and great are mistaken for error; and those of the poor and lowly, for crimes.
Blessington, Lady Marguerite
Minor vices lead to major ones, but minor virtues stay put.
McLaughlin, Mignon
It has ever been my experience that folks who have no vices, have very few virtues.
Lincoln, Abraham
Virtues are dangerous as vices insofar as they are allowed to rule over one as authorities and not as qualities one develops oneself.
Nietzsche, Friedrich
Idleness is the beginning of all psychology. What? Could it be that psychology is a vice?
Nietzsche, Friedrich