Who has a book of all that monarchs do, He's more secure to keep it shut than shown; For vice repeated is like the wand'ring wind, Blows dust in others' eye, to spread itself; And yet the end of all is bought thus dear, The breath is gone, and the sore eyes see clear To stop the air would hurt them.
By 1980, when I came out of prison, The Sun did a campaign to stop putting vice girls in prison. We've talked about it ever since and nothing has been done about it.
Being virtuous is wonderful thing, but feeling virtuous is a shortcut to vice.
Flippancy, the most hopeless form of intellectual vice.
You can reasonably make the intellectual journey from thinking it's permissible to eat shrimp to thinking it's not permissible, or vice versa, whereas our slavery journey was uni-directional. We are as certain we are not going back to that old kind of slavery as we are that we aren't going back to the geocentric universe.
The happiness and unhappiness of the rational, social animal depends not on what he feels but on what he does; just as his virtue and vice consist not in feeling but in doing.
Prodigality is indeed the vice of a weak nature, as avarice is of a strong one; it comes of a weak craving for those blandishments of the world which are easily to be had for money, and which, when obtained, are as much worse than worthless as a harlot's love is worse than none.
There is more than a morsel of truth in the saying, "He who hates vice hates mankind. "
Nostalgia, the vice of the aged.
Where secrecy or mystery begins, vice or roguery is not far off.
Some loves are like a vice that has ceased to give pleasure.
When you become deeply involved with someone, their problems become yours, and vice versa. It's family.
He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place.
Men imagine that they communicate their virtue or vice only by overt actions, and do not see that virtue or vice emit a breath every moment.
Art informs life in so many ways, and vice versa.
When the imagination is continually led to the brink of vice by a system of terror and denunciations, people fling themselves over the precipice from the mere dread of falling.
All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.
Both sides are divided and Western countries collaborate with Muslim countries and vice versa.
For me, drawing generates thinking and vice versa.
I won vice president of my student body in high school. That doesn't mean anything.