Vices

Famous quotes containing the word vices:

“As with a moral view designed
To cure the vices of mankind;
His vein, ironically grave,
Exposed the fool, and lashed the knave;”
—Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)

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

“I have never, in all my various travels, seen but two sorts of people ... I mean men and women, who always have been, and ever will be, the same. The same vices and the same follies have been the fruit of all ages, though sometimes under different names.”
—Mary Wortley, Lady Montagu (1689–1762)