Ennui, the parent of expensive and ruinous vices..

Some vices only lay hold of us by means of others, and these, like branches, fall on removal of the trunk..

We are more inclined to regret our virtues than our vices; but only the very honest will admit this..

Men often mistake notoriety for fame, and would rather be remarked for their vices and follies than not be noticed at all!.

In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice..

None seem to bear the imputation of supposed guilt with greater intolerance than such as are, on other occasions, obviously culpable of vice or crime..

What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few..

Though we may sometimes unintentionally bestow our beneficence on the unworthy, it does not take from the merit of the act. For charity doth not adop….

Books are necessary to correct the vices of the polite; but those vices are ever changing, and the antidote should be changed accordingly should stil….

Exaggeration! was ever any virtue attributed to a man without exaggeration? was ever any vice, without infinite exaggeration? Do we not exaggerate ou….

I'm the only American alive or dead who presided unhappily over the removal of a vice president and a president..

I've got two vices: cigarettes and taters..

I have no intention of being vice president. I have said it clearly..

My feeling about work is it's much more about the experience of doing it than the end product. Sometimes things that are really great and make lots o….

Vice and virtue chiefly imply the relation of our actions to men in this world; sin and holiness rather imply their relation to God and the other wor….

During an election campaign the air is full of speeches and vice versa..

The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue..

Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed (from friendship). [Lat., Assentatio, vitiorum adjutrix, procul amoveatur.].

Take a portion of wit, And fashion it fit, Like a needle, with point and with eye: A point that can wound, An eye to look round, And at folly or vice….

I don't have any [specific] intelligence about a Vice-Disney deal, but I do know that everybody's nervous about these emerging players, who can come ….

I had unknowingly passed along false information. And five of the highest-ranking officials in the administration were involved in my doing so: Rove,….