Vices
Quotes about vices
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- Every other vice hath some pleasure annexed to it, or will admit of some excuse, but envy wants both.
- Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy
- The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.
- Elizabeth Taylor, as quoted in The Seven Deadly Sins (2000) by Steven Schwartz, p. 23
- I haven't a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming petty vices whatsoever.
- Mark Twain, "Answers to Correspondents", The Californian, 17 June 1865. Reprinted in The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, and Other Sketches (1867)
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- Faults are like a hill, you stand on your own and you talk about those of other people.
- The problem with some folks is they won't admit their faults. I would, if I had any.
