How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
I consider nothing low but ignorance, vice, and meanness, characteristics generally found where the animal propensities predominate over the higher sentiments.
Sometimes crowds start out not liking someone but then they shift and love them. Or vice versa. It can shift on a dime.
That low vice, curiosity!
I sometimes think that shame, mere awkward, senseless shame, does as much towards preventing good acts and straightforward happiness as any of our vices can do.
The pleasure of a good act is something to be remembered - not in order to feed our complacency but in order to remind us that virtuous actions are not only possible and valuable, but that they can become easier and more delightful and more fruitful than the acts of vice which oppose and frustrate them.
There is probably no one, however rigid his virtue, who is not liable to find himself, by the complexity of circumstances, living at close quarters with the very vice which he himself has been most outspoken in condemning -- without altogether recognizing it beneath the disguise of ambiguous behavior which it assumes in his presence.
Though we may sometimes unintentionally bestow our beneficence on the unworthy, it does not take from the merit of the act. For charity doth not adopt the vices of its objects.
Vices are their own punishment
The writing doesn't distract me while I'm drawing and vice versa. I can devote my full attention to each.
There should be no such thing as a vice law. Every vice is only a bad habit, and the punishment is inherent in the act.
He cannot "tempt" to virtue as we do to vice. He wants them to learn to walk and must therefore take away His hand; and if only the will to walk is really there He is pleased even with their stumbles.
I forsee a marked deterioration in American musicand a host of other injuries to music in its artistic manifestations, by virtue—or rather by vice—of the multiplication of the various music-reproducing machines
Vice deceives us when dressed in the garb of virtue.
Virtue consists in fleeing vice.
Vice is but a nurse of agonies.
A prince must be prudent enough to know how to escape the bad reputation of those vices that would lose the state for him, and must protect himself from those that will not lose it for him, if this is possible; but if he cannot, he need not concern himself unduly if he ignores these less serious vices.
I have so great a contempt and detestation for meanness, that I could sooner make a friend of one who had committed murder, than of a person who could be capable, in any instance, of the former vice. Under meanness, I comprehend dishonesty; under dishonesty, ingratitude; under ingratitude, irreligion; and under this latter, every species of vice and immorality in human nature.
In the twentieth century our highest praise is to call the Bible 'The World's Best Seller. ' And it has come to be more and more difficult to say whether we think it is a best seller because it is great, or vice versa.
I like to eat chocolate and pizza - that's my vice! - just like everyone else, but if I do it I have to keep it under control.