Rene Descartes - Henry Fielding - Samuel Butler - Horace Walpole - R S Surtees - Rebecca West - William Shakespeare - Marquis de Sade - Elizabeth Taylor - R Buckminster Fuller - Maximilien Robespierre - St Augustine of Hippo - Cicero - Winston Churchill - Daniel Defoe - William Hazlitt - Moliere - David Hume - Adam Smith - Marie Dressler - Tallulah Bankhead - Oscar Wilde - John Steinbeck - Mary Shelley - Quentin Crisp - Aesop - Francois de la Rochefoucauld - Horace - Franz Kafka - Henry Ward Beecher - Red Riding Trilogy: Nineteen Eighty-Three TV - Henry St John/Lord Bolingbroke - William Congreve -
6,398. The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues. (Mind & Vice & Virtue) Rene Descartes
7,005. Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immortality. (School & Vice & Immorality) Henry Fielding 1707-54, Joseph Andrews
41,300. Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence. (Abstinence & Moderation & Vice) Samuel Butler
58,819. Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice. (Virtue & Vice) Horace Walpole
58,820. More people are flattered into virtue than bullied out of vice. (Virtue & Vice) R S Surtees
58,821. It is always one’s virtues and not one’s vices that precipitate one into disaster. (Virtue & Vice & Disaster) Rebecca West, There is No Conversation 1935
58,868. Virtue itself turns vice being misapplied,
And vice sometimes by action dignified. (Vice & Virtue) William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet II ii 21-22, Nurse to Peter
58,828. For in the fatness of these pursy times,
Virtue itself of vice must pardon beg. (Virtue & Vice) William Shakespeare, Hamlet III iv 153
92,621. I hate ingratitude more in a man
Than lying, vainness, babbling drunkenness,
Or any taint of vice whose strong corruption
Inhabits our frail blood. William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night III iv 346-349
58,826. … and do but see his vice.
’Tis to his virtue a just equinox,
The one as long as th’other. (Virtue & Vice) William Shakespeare, Othello II iii 115-117
58,869. For vice repeated, like the wand’ring wind,
Blows dust in others’ eyes to spread itself. William Shakespeare, Pericles I l139-140, Pericles
58,846. In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice. (Virtue & Vice) Marquis de Sade
58,851. Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization. (Virtue & Vice & Happiness) Marquis de Sade
58,862. The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they’re going to have some pretty annoying virtues. (Virtue & Vice) Elizabeth Taylor
58,849. Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices. (Virtue & Vice) R Buckminster Fuller
58,870. France must be purged of all vice. (Vice & France) Maximilien Robespierre
58,871. We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot. St Augustine of Hippo
58,872. It is a great thing to know our vices. Cicero
58,873. He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire. (Vice & Virtue) Winston Churchill
58,874. Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination. Daniel Defoe 1660-1731, Moll Flanders
58,875. The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy. (Vice & Hypocrisy) William Hazlitt
58,876. The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it. (Vice & Curse & Swear) George Washington
58,877. The greatest moral failing is to condemn something as a moral failing: no vice is worse than being judgmental. (Vice & Morality & Judgment & Condemn) Julian Baggini
58,878. I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue. (Vice & Virtue) Moliere
58,879. Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue. (Vice & Virtue) David Hume
58,844. Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience. (Virtue & Vice) Adam Smith
58,880. No vice is so bad as advice. (Vice & Advice) Marie Dressler
58,881. Here’s a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once. Tallulah Bankhead
58,882. He hadn’t a single redeeming vice. Oscar Wilde
72,465. The worst vice of a fanatic is his sincerity. (Fanatic & Vice & Sincerity) Oscar Wilde
84,785. Patriotism is the vice of nations. (Patriotism & Vice) Oscar Wilde
73,571. In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men want to be good and want to be loved. Indeed, most of their vices are attempted shortcuts to love. (Frailty & Vice & Love) John Steinbeck
58,885. 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 be conceived of noble and godlike. To be a great and virtuous man appeared the highest honour that can befall a sensitive being; to be base and vicious, as many on record have been, appeared the lowest degradation, a condition more abject than that of the blind mole or harmless worm. For a long time I could not conceive how one man could go forth to murder his fellow, or even why there were laws and governments; but when I heard details of vice and bloodshed, my wonder ceased and I turned away with disgust and loathing. (Vice & Virtue & Man) Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
58,886. Vice is its own reward. (Vice & Reward) Quentin Crisp
58,887. Vices are their own punishment. (Vice & Punishment) Aesop
58,888. Our virtues are most often but our vices disguised. (Vice & Virtue) François de la Rochefoucauld
70,368. The disgrace of others often keeps tender minds from vice. (Disgrace & Vice) Horace
76,864. Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues. (Idle & Vice & Virtue) Franz Kafka
87,979. Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without in himself. (Selfishness & Vice) Henry Ward Beecher
119,891. Controlled vice: off the streets, out of the shop windows and into our pockets. The whole of the north of England: the girls, shops, the mags, the whole bloody lot. (GBH Films & Police & Vice) Red Riding Trilogy: Nineteen Eighty-Three (2002) starring Tamsin Mitchell & Andrew Cryer & James Ainsworth & Ian Mercer & Gerard Kearns & Cara Seymour & Sean Bean & Jim Carter & Robert Sheehan et al, director Anand Tucker, head rozzer
45,241. The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue. (Politics & Vice) Henry St John, Lord Bolingbroke
43,119. It is the business of the comic poet to paint the vices and follies of human kind. (Comedy & Vice) William Congreve 1670-1729, The Double Dealer