VICE

Related Subjects: Corruption, Dissipation, Morality, Rake, Sensuality, Sin, Wickedness, Whore

1. One big vice in a man is apt to keep out a great many smaller ones.—BRET HARTE, To Men of Sandy Bar
   

2. If individuals have no virtues, their vices may be of use to us.—JUNIUS
   

3. Saint Augustine! well hast thou said,
   That of our vices we can frame
   A ladder, if we will but tread
   Beneath our feet each deed of shame.—LONGFELLOW, The Ladder of Saint Augustine
   

4. I prefer a comfortable vice to a virtue that bores.—MOLIERE
   

5. I find that the best virtue I have has in it some tincture of vice.—MONTAIGNE, Essays
   

6. Vice is a monster of so frightful mien,
   As to be hated needs but to be seen;
   Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face,
   We first endure, then pity, then embrace.—POPE, Essay on Man
   

7. Cent per cent, do we pay for every vicious pleasure.—Proverb
   

8. Vice is its own punishment and sometimes its own cure.—Proverb
   

9. What maintains one vice would bring up two children.—Proverb
   

10. Virtues all agree, but vices fight one another.—Proverb
    

11. The maintaining of one vice costeth more than ten virtues.—Proverb
    

12. As virtue is its own reward, so vice is its own punishment.—Proverb
    

13. Every vice fights against nature.—Proverb
    

14. Lordly vices require lordly estates.—Proverb
    

15. All vice infatuates and corrupts the judgment.—Proverb
    

16. There is no vice so simple but assumes
    Some mark of virtue on his outward parts.—SHAKESPEARE, The Merchant of Venice