Vice Quotes

“As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.”

“Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.”

“Drunkenness is a voluntary madness.”

“Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it.”

“Of all the plagues with which the world is curst, Of every ill, a drunkard is the worst.”

“Tobacco is a deadly poison. It is a narcotic. It is a filth-producing, disease-producing, and vice-producing weed.”

“She smoked, and she drank, and she never said ‘No!’”

“Though modesty is a virtue, bashfulness is a vice.”

“The suppression of vice is as much the law's business as the suppression of subversive activities.”

“In the bottle, discontent seeks for comfort, cowardice for courage, and bashfulness for confidence.”

“Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.”

“The whole world is a slave, some is a slave to the bottle, and some to the women, and some to the money.”

“Let not your meat be your god.”

“A woman is an occasional pleasure but a cigar is always a smoke.”

“The vices of mankind are active and able ministers of depopulation.”

“The love of a woman and a bottle of wine are sweet poison.”

“Idleness is the bane of body and mind, the nurse of naughtiness, the chief author of all mischief.”

“We do not despise all who have vices, but we despise all who have no virtues.”

“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.”

“Vanity is the foundation of the most ridiculous and contemptible vices.”