Quotes by Vices Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa. Casey Stengel vices baseball sports Perhaps [James Herondale] loved vice for vice's own sake. Cassandra Clare vices sake I believe that I am God's exact intention. It's that balance of virtue and vice. Cee Lo Green balance vices believe What vice could be worse than covetousness? What is more sinful than slander? For one who is truthful, what need is there for austerity? For one who has a clean heart, what is the need for pilgrimage?. Chanakya austerity vices heart Don’t sanctuaries become prisons, and vice versa, foremost in the mind? Chang-Rae Lee sanctuary vices mind The vices of man, as full of horror as one might suppose them to be, contain the proof (if in nothing else but their infinitely expandable nature) of his taste for the infinite; only, it is a taste that often takes a wrong turn. Charles Baudelaire infinity vices men Alas! Man's vices, horrible as they are supposed to be, contain the positive proof of his taste for the infinite. Charles Baudelaire vices taste men Alas, human vices, however horrible one might imagine them to be, contain the proof (were it only in their infinite expansion) of man's longing for the infinite; but it is a longing that often takes the wrong route. It is my belief that the reason behind all culpable excesses lies in this depravation of the sense of the infinite. Charles Baudelaire vices men lying Love, like the cold bath, is never negative, it seldom leaves us where it finds us; if once we plunge into it, it will either heighten our virtues, or inflame our vices. Charles Caleb Colton vices love negative Drunkenness is the vice of a good constitution or of a bad memory of a constitution so treacherously good that it never bends till it breaks; or of a memory that recollects the pleasures of getting intoxicated, but forgets the pains of getting sober. Charles Caleb Colton pain vices memories The martyrs to vice far exceed the martyrs to virtue, both in endurance and in number. Charles Caleb Colton endurance vices numbers When all run by common consent into vice, none appear to do so. Charles Caleb Colton vices common running Vice has more martyrs than virtue; and it often happens that men suffer more to be lost than to be saved. Charles Caleb Colton vices suffering men No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health. Charles Caleb Colton disease health vices Faults of the head are punished in this world, those of the heart in another; but as most of our vices are compound, so also is their punishment. Charles Caleb Colton punishment vices heart Those who have resources within themselves, who can dare to live alone, want friends the least, but, at the same time, best know how to prize them the most. But no company is far preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health. Charles Caleb Colton society disease vices Women who are the least bashful are not unfrequently the most modest; and we are never more deceived than when we would infer any laxity of principle from that freedom of demeanor which often arises from a total ignorance of vice. Charles Caleb Colton vices ignorance principles The moral cement of all society is virtue; it unites and preserves, while vice separates and destroys. Charles Caleb Colton moral virtue vices Though folly, robed in purple, shines, Though vice exhausts Peruvian mines, Yet shall they tremble and turn pale When satire wields her mighty flail. Charles Churchill purple shining vices Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess! Charles Dickens excess vices literature «23456789101112»