If someone speaks badly of you, do not defend yourself against the accusations, but reply; "you obviously don't know about my other vices, otherwise you would have mentioned these as well
There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.
There's not a comedy actor who doesn't want a chance to do drama, and vice versa. As actors, we're always looking to be pushed and to do the other side of the coin.
I saw a Harry Reid statement saying, there's nothing in the Constitution that says the Senate has to act on any presidential nominee. Well, that was back when President Bush was president and vice versa. So this is not a pretty carrying-on at the moment.
No man, however enslaved to his appetites, or hurried by his passions, can, while he preserves his intellects unimpaired, please himself with promoting the corruption of others. He whose merit has enlarged his influence would surely wish to exert it for the benefit of mankind. Yet such will be the effect of his reputation, while he suffers himself to indulge in any favourite fault, that they who have no hope to reach his excellence will catch at his failings, and his virtues will be cited to justify the copiers of his vices.
Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome.
Women are from their very infancy debarred those advantages with the want of which they are aftewards reproached, and nursed up in those vices which will hereafter be upbraided to them. So partial are men as to expect bricks when they afford no straw.
When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice.
There is no vice so simple but assumes some mark of virtue on his outward parts.
The vices come as passengers, visit us as guest and stay as masters.
The more liked you are in Washington, the less liked you are in the rest of America, and vice versa.
It is the common vice of all, in old age, to be too intent upon our interests.
It is the restrictions placed on vice by our social code which makes its pursuit so peculiarly agreeable.
He cannot "tempt" to virtue as we do to vice. He wants them to learn to walk and must therefore take away His hand; and if only the will to walk is really there He is pleased even with their stumbles.
HERMIT, n. A person whose vices and follies are not sociable.
High fortune makes both our virtues and vices stand out as objects that are brought clearly to view by the light.
The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.
But are sailors, frequenters of fiddlers' greens, without vices? No; but less often than with landsmen do their vices, so called, partake of crookedness of heart, seeming less to proceed from viciousness than exuberance of vitality after long constraint: frank manifestations in accordance with natural law.
All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it.