For me, cinema is a vice. I love it intimately.

That’s not what I’m asking. I’m asking, what’s your vice and what brand of trouble does it lead to?

Everyone knows that evil should be avoided wherever possible; few actually know where it is possible.

Brad brings a lot to the table that Robby didn’t bring, and vice versa. Robby was an excellent athlete for his size. Brad gives you an added dimension.

Self-improvement is generally a removal of a vice rather than an acquisition of a virtue.

On behalf of myself, the chair, the vice chair, and the superintendent I would like to apologize to each and every one of you for the anxiety that may have been caused from the presentation...

The mask of art is the means through which corruption is spread. The mask makes vice seem beautiful, turns squalor and nastiness into glamorous thrill, seduces the onlooker into the game – and leaves him...

[I]f the name of wife appears more sacred and more valid, sweeter to me is ever the word friend, or, if thou be not ashamed, concubine … And thou thyself wert not wholly unmindful of...

If this is vise I want no virtue….I know what happiness is possible to me on earth. And my happiness needs no higher aim to vindicate it. My happiness is not the means to any...

When misguided public opinion honors what is despicable and despises what is honorable, punishes virtue and rewards vice, encourages what is harmful and discourages what is useful, applauds falsehood and smothers truth under indifference or...

Shun all vice, especially card playing.

Here am I: at one stroke incestuous, adulteress, sodomite, and all that in a girl who only lost her maidenhead today! What progress, my friends… with what rapidity I advance along the thorny road of...

He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.”[On British Labour politician Stafford Cripps.]

One doesn’t have to operate with great malice to do great harm. The absence of empathy and understanding are sufficient. In fact, a man convinced of his virtue even in the midst of his vice...

In Paris, everything’s for sale: wise virgins, foolish virgins, truth and lies, tears and smiles.

Doc turned in the seat and looked back. The disappearing sun shone on his laughing face, his gay and eager face. With his left hand he held the bucking steering wheel.Cannery Row looked after the...

Encouraging virtue is better than suppressing vice.

Accentuated plainness and accentuated vice ought to bring about harmony. Beauty lies in harmony, in style, whether it be the harmony of ugliness or beauty, vice or virtue.

I have brought peace to this land, and security,” he began.”And what of your soul, when you use the cleverness of argument to cloak such acts? Do you think that the peace of a thousand...

Why should there be some sort of virtue always attributed to a frank admission of vice?

I haven’t a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming petty vices whatsoever.

Your virtue is your shield; your vice is the weapon that inflicts wounds on you.

[Peacock, the Bradford captain whose move to Leeds was confirmed last week, moves up from vice-captain to replace the injured Paul Sculthorpe.] He wears his heart on his sleeve and leads by example, but he...

[I]t is not by being richer or more powerful that a man becomes better; one is a matter of fortune, the other of virtue. Nor should she deem herself other than venal who weds a...

There are those who are legitimately corrupt, who cannot admit that legitimacy allows them to corrupt legitimacy, and to legitimately corrupt others.

If God existed, he, for sure, had a vice of his own, a woman he could not say no to and, he would have acted the same way if he were in Johnny Kiddow’s position.

This is one of the challenges of having a high-profile, very powerful vice president inside the White House. The disadvantage is when something negative happens involving the vice president, it is much harder for the...

No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.

I can make any throw he can make, and vice versa.

Never try to lock the virtue’s door with the key of viceIt may lock forever; never to be opened again

I guess I am more like a vice-captain now,

So may the outward shows be least themselves:The world is still deceived with ornament.In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt,But, being seasoned with a gracious voice,Obscures the show of evil? In religion,What damned error,...

He who profits by villainy, has perpetrated it.

My Lady, you certainly tell me about wonderful constancy, strength and virtue and firmness of women, so can one say the same thing about men? (…)Response [by Lady Rectitude]: “Fair sweet friend, have you not...

Was man, indeed, at once so powerful, so virtuous and magnificent, yet so vicious and base? He appeared at one time a mere scion of the evil principle and at another as all that can...

I think that ‘strong’ and ‘decisive’ are never words that are used for any vice president. A vice president’s role is to play the second position.

Feeling important is a vice, not a virtue, however concealed as participation in something noble.

Service that is purely self serving, becomes a vice.Do not serve, vice.

Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.

O [Roman] people be ashamed; be ashamed of your lives. Almost no cities are free of evil dens, are altogether free of impurities, except the cities in which the barbarians have begun to live…Let nobody...

He spoke in hard and angry earnest, if a man ever did,” replied the girl, shaking her head. “He is an earnest man when his hatred is up. I know many who do worse things;...

In the first place I spent most of my time at home, reading. I tried to stifle all that was continually seething within me by means of external impressions. And the only external means I...

Pride is an expensive vice, for it is wedded to Greed whose hunger is never sated

In general I strive for greatness and rational achievement, but I admit to you I’ve a terrible fondness for women, a tendency towards drunkenness, and a weakness for the fumes of the poppy—opium and other...

Make sure of your target and what is beyond. It applies to the vice president and everyone on down.

I have seen purer liquors, better segars, finer tobacco, truer guns and pistols, larger dirks and bowie knives, and prettier courtesans here in San Francisco than in any other place I have ever visited; and...

Her vice takes hold of her again, but she still refrains until some moment when, gnawed by some hideous caprice, she comes aground like a mournful wreck ruined by lust, in the midst of her...

Virtue, should there be anyone who still ignores the fact, always finds pitfalls on the extremely difficult path of perfection, but sin and vice are so favoured by fortune…

Honesty, like any inclination, can become a ruling passion, a monomania almost.

Then the soul, freed from vice, purged by studies of true philosophy, versed in spiritual life, and practised in matters of the intellect, devoted to the contemplation of her own substance, as if awakened from...