Quotes
Quotes about Vice
So smooth he daubed his vice with show of virtue That, his apparent open guilt omitted-- I mean, his conversation with Shore's wife-- He lived from all attainder of suspects.
An ounce of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition. â¢Michael Korda We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity. â¢G. K. Chesterton Often a noble face hides filthy ways. â¢Euripides The only vice which cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.
Be a pattern to others, and then all will go well; for as a whole city is affected by the licentious passions and vices of great men, so it is likewise reformed by their moderation.
Every life is march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service or other. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger and we will make not only our own happiness, but that of the world at large.
I've met a few people who had to change their jobs in order to change their lives, but I've met many more people who merely had to change their motive to service in order to change their lives.
Take the advice of a faithful friend, and submit thy inventions to his censure.
'Tis plate of rare device and jewels Of rich and exquisite form, their values great, And I am something curious, being strange, To have them in sale stowage.
A knave, a rascal, an eater of broken meats; a base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy worsted-stocking knave; a lily-livered, action-faking, whoreson, glass-gazing, superserviceable, finical rogue; one-trunk-inheriting slave; one that wouldst be a bawd in way of good service, and art nothing but the composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pander, and the son and heir of a mongrel bitch; one whom I will beat into clamorous whining if thou deny'st the least syllable of thy addition.
Those learned in the law, when they do give advice without the usual fee, and in the confidence of friendship, generally say, "Pay, pay anything rather than go to law.".
Abrams's Advice: When eating an elephant, take one bite at a time.
Advice, First Law of: The correct advice to give is the advice that is desired.
Letter writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company.
If you are in doubt whether to write a letter or not, don't. And the advice applies to many doubts in life besides that of letter writing.
But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.
My advice to those who are about to begin, in earnet, the journey of life, is to take their heart in one hand and a club in the other.
The essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything.
But come, I'll tell thee all my whole device When I am in my coach, which stays for us At the park gate; and therefore haste away, For we must measure twenty miles to-day.
Love at first sight is one of the greatest labor-saving devices the world has ever seen.
Pets are more sensitive to the needs of humans than vice versa.
Love is a kind of military service.
Luxury and dissipation, soft and gentle as their approaches are, and silently as they throw their silken chains about the heart, enslave it more than the most active and turbulent vices.
The greatest luxury of riches is, that they enable you to escape so much good advice.
