Lord Byron Quotes, Life Quotes, Vices Quotes

Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life, and if Virtue is not its own reward, I don't know any other stipend annexed to it.

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HERMIT, n. A person whose vices and follies are not sociable.

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Well, whiles I am a beggar, I will rail, And say there is no sin but to be rich; And being rich, my virtue then shall be To say there is no vice but beggary

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Sensuality, too, which used to show itself course, smiling, unmasked, and unmistakable, is now serious, analytic, and so burdened with a sense of its responsibilities that it passes muster half the time as a new type of asceticism.

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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.

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It is a great thing to know your vices.

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That low vice, curiosity!

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How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!

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Manchester has everything but good looks..., the only place in England which escapes our characteristic vice of snobbery.

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Mutual forgiveness of each vice. Such are the Gates of Paradise.

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Society takes upon itself the right to inflict appalling punishment on the individual, but it also has the supreme vice of shallowness, and fails to realize what it has done. When the man's punishment is over, it leaves him to himself; that is to say, it abandons him at the very moment when its highest duty towards him begins.

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Virtue hath no tongue to check vice's pride.

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The worst vice of the fanatic is his sincerity.

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A rent in your clothes is a mishap, a stain on them is a vice.

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Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.

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The main vice of capitalism is the uneven distribution of prosperity. The main vice of socialism is the even distribution of misery.

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I was accused of every monstrous vice by public rumour and private rancour; my name, which had been a knightly or noble one, was tainted. I felt that, if what was whispered, and muttered, and murmured, was true, I was unfit for England; if false, England was unfit for me.

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In vain will you fly from one vice if in your wilfulness you embrace another.

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Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.

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If vices were profitable, the virtuous man would be the sinner.

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