Vice quotes

As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue. Albert Einstein
(also about
Virtue)

Vice quotes by George Eliot

Also about
Cruelty, People, History
Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity. You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.

Vice quotes by Francois Voltaire

Also about
Virtue, Opportunity, Evil
The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year. To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. Abraham Linkoln
(also about
Virtue, Experience)
Virtue has a veil, vice a mask. Victor Hugo
(also about
Virtue)

Vice quotes by George Gordon Byron

Also about
Greed, Virtue
So for a good old-gentlemanly vice, I think I must take up with avarice. Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life - and if Virtue is not its own reward I don't know any other stipend annexed to it.
The road to Hell is paved with good intentions. Karl Marx
(also about
Virtue)
The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride. Martin Luther
(also about
God, Mankind, Decay)
Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain. Niccolo Machiavelli
(also about
Mankind)
If I thought a man had never committed a sin in his life, I don't think I'd want to talk with him. A man with flaws is more interesting. Kirk Douglas
(also about
Sin, People, Interest)
Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more. Nikola Tesla
(also about
Humanity, Harmony, Non-Duality, Virtue)
It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways. Buddha
(also about
Evil, Mind, Self, Influence)
It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get. Confucius
(also about
Love, Life, Hatred, Virtue)
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. George Washington
Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man. Benjamin Franklin
(also about
Virtue)

Vice quotes by Marilyn Manson

Also about
Literature, Heroes, Church, Devil, Individuality
In any story, the villain is the catalyst. The hero's not a person who will bend the rules or show the cracks in his armor. He's one-dimensional intentionally, but the villain is the person who owns up to what he is and stands by it. If Satan wasn't around, churches would go out of business. I don't try to be bad as much as I just am by nature.

Vice quotes by Moliere

Also about
Hatred, Disappointment, Misanthropy, Fashion, Hypocrisy, Virtue, Interest, Choice, Boredom, Life
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 scorn
Which vice should stimulate in virtuous minds. Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue. I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores. Malicious men may die, but malice never. What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man. Displaying vice to the mockery of men deals it a great blow.
Men put up with admonition but are loath to be mocked.
One might be willing to be wicked; one cannot bear to appear foolish.
It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of maturer age are already sunk into corruption. Charles de Montesquieu
(also about
Youth, Inheritance)
The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil. Francis Bacon
(also about
Life, Virtue)

Vice quotes by Thomas Paine

Also about
Virtue, Principles, Moderation, Humanity
A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice. Human nature is not of itself vicious.
Many laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many laws. Walter Savage Landor
(also about
Law, Politicians)

Vice quotes by Joanne Rowling

Also about
Personality, Shame, Harry Potter, Envy, Lie, Anger, Great
If you made a better rat than a human, it's not much to boast about, Peter. Greatness inspires envy, envy engenders spite, spite spawns lies.
This hellhound (pride) creepeth into men's hearts and plucketh them back from entering the right path of life and is so deeply rooted in men's breasts that she cannot be plucked out. Thomas More
(also about
Pride)
Be bad, but at least don't be a liar, a deceiver! Leo Tolstoy
(also about
Lie, Betrayal)
Careful those who fight with monsters, that they might become monsters themeselves. Roald Dahl
(also about
Psychology, Personality, People, Character)
Today we are fighting Communism. Okay. If I'd been alive fifty years ago, the brand of Conservatism we have today would have been damn near called Communism and we should have been told to go and fight that. History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts. Ian Fleming
(also about
Politics, Enemies, History)
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. Charles Baudelaire
(also about
Evil, Stupidity)

Vice quotes by Mary Shelley

Also about
Virtue, Devil, Angels, Misery
The fallen angel becomes a malignant devil. I am malicious because I am miserable.

Vice quotes by Franz Kafka

Also about
Humanity, Evil, Laziness, Virtue, Delusion
The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man. Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues. Most men are not wicked... They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.
Every harlot was a virgin once. William Blake
(also about
Virtue)
No exile at the South Pole or on the summit of Mont Blanc separates us more effectively from others than the practice of a hidden vice. Marcel Proust
(also about
Secret)

Vice quotes by Kurt Vonnegut

Also about
Faith, Bigotry, Body, Soul
Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile. My soul knows my meat is doing bad things, and is embarrassed. But my meat just keeps right on doing bad, dumb things.
Human nature is not black and white but black and grey. Graham Greene
(also about
Humanity, Life, Virtue)

Vice quotes by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Also about
Virtue, Change, Envy
For neither good nor evil can last for ever; and so it follows that as evil has lasted a long time, good must now be close at hand. All the vices, Sancho, bring some kind of pleasure with them; but envy brings nothing but irritation, bitterness, and rage.
There is no dignity in wickedness, whether in purple or rags; and hell is a democracy of devils, where all are equals. Herman Melville
(also about
Democracy, Dignity, Hell)
Here is true immorality: ignorance and stupidity; the devil is nothing but this. His name is Legion. Gustave Flaubert
(also about
Ignorance, Stupidity, Devil)
Man cannot spend all his time doing evil, and even in the company of pirates there must be some sweet moments on their sinister ship when you feel as if you were aboard a pleasure yacht. Honoré de Balzac
(also about
Virtue, People)