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...

He — with two vice presidents and with the prime minister and his deputies and with the speaker of the house — they are forming a collective leadership,

To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.

A very special case. A few years more, and that pretty creature who you love too much, I think, will, without ever loving them, have known as many men as there are beads on her...

The stranger was still smiling. He transformed himself into a rose bush and entwined me. My Christian education meant that ever since childhood I have had a horror of vice and it was not without...

The baronet, in his old age, had been cast up by his vices on the shores of melancholy; heavy-eyed, grey-haired, bent, he seemed to pass through life as in a dream.(“The Undying Thing”)

My wretched passions were acute, smarting, from my continual, sickly irritability I had hysterical impulses, with tears and convulsions. I had no resource except reading, that is, there was nothing in my surroundings which I...

Hypocrisy a homage is true, That vice pays to virtue, Be man – himself so true, That no false does he brew.

What are your chief vices? And virtues? I have no vices. The concept doesn’t exist in my vocabulary. My chief virtue is gratitude

Men’s evil manners live in brass; their virtue we write in water.

When we get the outside game going it opens things up for him and vice versa. This team plays well off each other, and we must do that (tonight).

But that woman is an encyclopedia!Of all vices, ancient and modern, and terribly interesting to leaf through!

[I]t was with a good end in mind – that of acquiring the knowledge of good and evil – that Eve allowed herself to be carried away and eat the forbidden fruit. But Adam was...

What a difference! Under the esthetic sky, everything is buoyant, beautiful, transient! when ethics arrives on the scene, everything becomes harsh, angular and infinitely boring

If we can spend more time uprooting vices and rooting virtues, our world will be safer and better.

Ambrosio was yet to learn, that to an heart unacquainted with her, Vice is ever most dangerous when lurking behind the Mask of Virtue.

Sin aims always at the utmost; every time it rises up to tempt or entice, might it have its own course, it would go out to the utmost sin in that kind. Every unclean thought...

Well-lit streets discourage sin, but don’t overdo it.

What did the vice president know, what were his intentions?

When it’s good for the parks department, it’s bad for the farmers and vice versa.

What we do here also affects the county — and vice versa.

Vice may be had at all prices

I remember once when my vice-captain came and asked me permission whether he could get married on a particular day because there was a match on. Even the parents of the cricketers come and tell...

You must master the vices. You know that if a thing is worth doing it’s worth doing well. If, however, a thing is not worth doing then it’s worth doing fabulously, amazingly, with grace, style...

A strange girl, all phosphorous and cantharides, burning with every desire! And burning with every vice!

When you hear men talking,” said Cornelia, “all they ever do is speak ill of women. … And I don’t quite know how they managed to make this law in their favour, or who exactly...

Certainly the most destructive vice if you like, that a person can have. More than pride, which is supposedly the number one of the cardinal sins – is self pity. Self pity is the worst...

To be wicked is never excusable, but there is some merit in knowing that you are; the most irreparable of vices is to do evil from stupidity.

I did not intend making a philippic against covetousness, a sin to which I believe no one here is addicted. Let us not, however, plume ourselves in not being guilty of a vice to which,...

Samuel understood at last why this being hated men and women so much: he hated them because they were so like himself, because the worst of the was mirrored in them. He was the source...

Courting is an activity where a man and a woman flaunt their virtues. Dating is an activity where life exposes the other’s vices.

Be informed, also, that this good and savoury Parish is the home of Hectors, Trapanners, Biters who all go under the general appelation of Rooks. Here are all the Jilts, Cracks, Prostitutes, Night-walkers, Whores, Linnen-lifters,...

I’ve not said that the vice president has done anything wrong, … What I have said is there is a basis for (an) independent counsel.

The world says: “You have needs — satisfy them. You have as much right as the rich and the mighty. Don’t hesitate to satisfy your needs; indeed, expand your needs and demand more.” This is...

I don’t define anything I eat as a vice.

If she knew me as I really am she would despise me, and certainly not aid or abet my evil designs. To veil their vices from the sight of the good is the only resource...

I was never Vice Chair of the Troops Out Movement.

I just invented a device that eliminates vice. It looks like a bottle of booze, only it’s empty, because I just drank it.

Not only do you have to watch your own back in these vice presidential debates, you also have to watch the presidential candidate’s too.

Being virtuous is wonderful thing, but feeling virtuous is a shortcut to vice.

Scooter Libby is a fine person. And he served the president and the vice president well,

To be proud of virtue, is to poison yourself with the Antidote.

Twas doing nothing was his curse. Is there a vice can plague us worse?

No one ever reached the worst of a vice at one leap.

My hate is general, I detest all men;Some because they are wicked and do evil,Others because they tolerate the wicked,Refusing them the active vigorous scornWhich vice should stimulate in virtuous minds.

(H)ow many great noblemen rob their petty tradesmen, condescend to swindle their poor retainers out of wretched little sums, and cheat for a few shillings? When we read that a nobleman has left for the...

Yes, I laugh at all mankind, and the imposition that they dare to practice when they talk of hearts. I laugh at human passions and human cares, vice and virtue, religion and impiety; they are...

There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as ‘moral indignation,’ which permits envy or hate to be acted out under the guise of virtue.