Over 40,000 Famous Quotes Sorted By Topic and Author

Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.

One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real.

Basically, I'm for anything that gets you through the night - be it prayer, tranquilizers or a bottle of Jack Daniels.

Tobacco and alcohol, delicious fathers of abiding friendships and fertile reveries.

The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it.

Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it.

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

He who hates vice hates men.

The virtue of some people consists wholly in condemning the vices in others.

What were once vices are the fashion of the day.

Every vice has its excuse ready.

I have not a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming vices.

Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners -- your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards -- who dishonor the vices and bring them into bad repute.

Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.

Hate no one; hate their vices, not themselves.

Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.

The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.

Vice is such a hideous creature, that the more you see of it the better you like it.