Quotes of: Vices Keyword

It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.

James F. Cooper

It is the besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which the masses of men exhibit their tyranny.

James F. Cooper

David Marcus: Reliant is supposed to be at *our* disposal, not vice-versa.

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

Arresting development, attacking science, and glorifying poverty is not the answer to the vices that attend prosperity.

Abdolkarim Soroush

Sadly, the timing's never been right. There have been men who would have married me but I didn't feel the same, and vice versa.

Cherie Lunghi

Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!

William Shakespeare

A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.

Theodore Roosevelt

The modern world is not evil; in some ways the modern world is far too good. It is full of wild and wasted virtues. When a religious scheme is shattered...it is not merely the vices that are let loose. The vices are, indeed, let loose, and they wande...

G.K. Chesterton

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

Dorsai!

In the late '70s, maybe just before I started, there was still an attitude that if you did film you didn't do TV and vice versa, but that's gone now.

Robert Carlyle

Can't say it often enough - change your hair, change your life.

Inherent Vice

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

Stories

He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire."

Wealth, War, and Wisdom

Of the many horrors of divorce, the most egregious is that it robs a kid of the best of both worlds. Dads can do many things that even the best moms can't, and vice versa.

Rob Lowe

Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.

George Eliot

Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.

Quintilian

Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.

Quintilian

Mission accomplished? The mission in Iraq, as laid out by President Bush and Vice President Cheney, has failed.

Robert Byrd

If not doing VICE, I probably would be selling Cokes on the beach in Vietnam. I like the sea.

Shane Smith

My freshman year, I ran for student class president and lost. The next year, I ran for student class vice president, and I won.

Tyra Banks

A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.

Lyman Abbott