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Vices Quotes (page 14)

Mark Twain quote: "I haven't a particle of confidence in a man who has no..."
I haven't a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming petty vices whatsoever. Mark Twain
You instinctively display the greatest virtue, or rather the chief defect, of us eccentric Parisians- that is, you assume the vices you have not, and conceal the virtues you possess. Alexander Dumas
There definitely needs to be water on the sidelines for these players, but I also had some Gatorade just in case they were allergic to the water or vice versa. John Madden
The little people will get even, which is one of a thousand reasons why they are not little people at all. If you're a jerk as a leader, you will be torpedoed. And usually it won't be by your vice presidents; it will be on the loading dock at 3am when no supervisors are around. Tom Peters
Patrick Henry quote: "It is the business of a virtuous clergy to censure vice in..."
It is the business of a virtuous clergy to censure vice in every appearance of it. Patrick Henry
The monkish vows keep us far from that sink of vice that is the female body, but often they bring us close to other errors. Can I finally hide from myself the fact that even today my old age is still stirred by the noonday demon when my eyes, in choir, happen to linger on the beardless face of a novice, pure and fresh as a maiden's? Umberto Eco
Friedrich Nietzsche quote: "Christianity gave Eros poison to drink; he did not die of it,..."
Christianity gave Eros poison to drink; he did not die of it, certainly, but degenerated to Vice. Friedrich Nietzsche
Hannah More quote: "Twas doing nothing was his curse. Is there a vice can plague..."
Twas doing nothing was his curse. Is there a vice can plague us worse? Hannah More
Virtue, should there be anyone who still ignores the fact, always finds pitfalls on the extremely difficult path of perfection, but sin and vice are so favoured by fortune... Jose Saramago
Oscar Wilde quote: "When they make up their ledger, they balance stupidity by..."
When they make up their ledger, they balance stupidity by wealth, and vice by hypocrisy. Oscar Wilde
Remember that the fool in the eyes of the gods and the fool in the eyes of man are very different. One who is entirely ignorant of the modes of Art in its revolution or the moods of thought in its progress, of the pomp of the Latin line or the richer music of the vowelled Greeks, of Tuscan sculpture or Elizabethan song may yet be full of the very sweetest wisdom. The real fool, such as the gods mock or mar, is he who does not know himself. I was such a one too long. You have been such a one... Oscar Wilde
Memory is like fiction; or else it's fiction that's like memory. This really came home to me once I started writing fiction, that memory seemed a kind of fiction, or vice versa. Either way, no matter how hard you try to put everything neatly into shape, the context wanders this way and that, until finally the context isn't even there anymore. You're left with this pile of kittens lolling all over one another. Warm with life, hopelessly unstable. And then to put these things out as saleable... Haruki Murakami
The thought of the president trying to concentrate on his delivery as gobbledygook whirred by his eyes made me sick with worry — for him and me. This screwup might not have been my fault, but it was my responsibility. ‘This is the worst thing that’s ever happened,’ I muttered. ‘I dunno,’ replied Mike Feldman, the vice president’s aide, ‘the Holocaust was pretty bad.’ Very funny. George Stephanopoulos
Honore de Balzac quote: "Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all..."
Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies. Honore de Balzac
It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honor, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism, and sadism into justice. Anybody could do it; it required no brains at all. It merely required no character. Joseph Heller

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