“Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.”— Honoré de Balzac
“Of all the plagues with which the world is curst, Of every ill, a drunkard is the worst.”— Charles Cotton
“Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.”— John Tillotson
“Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it.”— Mary Astell
“The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.”— John Cleese
“The suppression of vice is as much the law's business as the suppression of subversive activities.”— Patrick Devlin
“The whole world is a slave, some is a slave to the bottle, and some to the women, and some to the money.”— Willie Dixon
“In the bottle, discontent seeks for comfort, cowardice for courage, and bashfulness for confidence.”— Horace Smith
“Idleness is the bane of body and mind, the nurse of naughtiness, the chief author of all mischief.”— Robert Burton
“We do not despise all who have vices, but we despise all who have no virtues.”— Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues