Quotes of: Vice Keyword

A lot of factors go into choosing a vice-presidential nominee.

Marco Rubio

I struggled for 15 years in this business before Miami Vice came along.

Don Johnson

This is the great vice of academicism, that it is concerned with ideas rather than with thinking.

Lionel Trilling

An actor who is good at comedy can also be very good at drama, but not necessarily vice versa.

Desi Arnaz

Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.

Edith Sitwell

The name and pretense of virtue is as serviceable to self-interest as are real vices.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I was so happy when they cast me in Chocolat, because it's one of my vices.

Juliette Binoche

Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

I have a number of vices, one of which is moderation.

E. L. Doctorow

It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness.

E. M. Forster

Flippancy, the most hopeless form of intellectual vice.

George Gissing

What's vice today may be virtue, tomorrow.

Henry Fielding

Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Napoleon Bonaparte

Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.

Abu Bakr

Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.

Walter Scott

We have made men proud of most vices, but not of cowardice. Whenever we have almost succeeded in doing so, God permits a war or an earthquake or some other calamity, and at once courage becomes so obviously lovely and important even in human eyes tha...

The Screwtape Letters

[A]ll who are smitten with the love of books think cheaply of the world and wealth; as Jerome says to Vigilantius: The same man cannot love both gold and books... The hideousness of vice is greatly reprobated in books, so that he who loves to commune...

Richard de Bury

[Vice-Marshal Arthur Coningham and General Patton are discussing the lack of supporting air cover the British have been providing for American troops] Air Vice-Marshal Sir Arthur Coningham: I promise you one thing, General. You will see no more Germa...

Patton

Cowardice is the most terrible of vices.

The Master and Margarita

The sight of a drunkard is a better sermon against that vice than the best that was ever preached on that subject.

George Savile