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vice Quotes

10 of the best book quotes about vice
01
“There is no vice so simple but assumes Some mark of virtue on his outward parts.”
02
“No, this is not a good town for psychedelic drugs. Reality itself is too twisted.”
03
“Or we fall in love with someone who incarnates the virtues or vices opposite our own. An orderly man who plans his days marries a spontaneous woman who lets things lie where they fall, lives in the moment, and is perpetually late for appointments.”
04
“Men imagine that they communicate their virtue or vice only by overt actions, and do not see that virtue or vice emit a breath every moment.”
05
“For even in the likeness of the sufferings, there remains an unlikeness in the sufferers; and though exposed to the same anguish, virtue and vice are not the same thing.”
06
“Thus, a good man, though a slave, is free; but a wicked man, though a king, is a slave. For he serves, not one man alone, but what is worse, as many masters as he has vices.”
07
“He longed to revenge himself on every one for his own unseemliness.”
08
“Tis one thing to be tempted, Escalus, Another thing to fall,”
09
“Virtue and vice are concepts invented by human beings, words for a morality which human beings arbitrarily devised.”
10
“Thought and language are to the artist instruments of an art. Vice and virtue are to the artist materials for an art. From the point of view of form, the type of all the arts is the art of the musician.”
Source: Chapter 1, Paragraph 6
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