Vices - Quotes

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

In some way the secret vice exhales its poison; and the evil passion, however cunningly masked, stains through to the surface. - E. H. Chapin

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. - Abraham Lincoln

Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues. - Napoleon Bonaparte

Men often abstain from the grosser vices as too coarse and common for their appetites, while the vices which are frosted and ornamented are served up to them as delicacies. - Henry Ward Beecher

Men wish to be saved from the mischiefs of their vices, but not from their vices. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The general tendency [is] to be censorious of the vices to which one has not been tempted. - Rebecca West

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 behaviour which it assumes in his presence. - Marcel Proust

Vices are their own punishment. - Aesop

Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher. - Seneca

Vice, in its true light, is so deformed, that it shocks us at first sight; and would hardly ever seduce us, if it did not at first wear the mask of some virtue. - Lord Chesterfield

Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess! - Charles Dicken

We tolerate without rebuke the vices with which we have grown familiar. - Publilius Syrus

We try to make a virtue of vices we are loath to correct. - Francois de la Rochefoucauld