Vices

Famous quotes containing the word vices:

    It is queer how it is always one’s virtues and not one’s vices that precipitate one into disaster.
    Rebecca West (1892–1983)

    The vices of youth now exceed my powers, but not my fancy.
    Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

    The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our virtues, or what we have always esteemed such, into the same pit that has consumed our grosser vices.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)