Definition of vice

"vice" in the noun sense

1. frailty, vice

moral weakness

2. vice

a specific form of evildoing

"vice offends the moral standards of the community"

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Quotations for vice

No vice goes alone. [ Proverb ]

No vice like avarice. [ Proverb ]

That low vice curiosity. [ Byron ]

Vice makes virtue shine. [ Proverb ]

Vices are seldom single. [ Robert Hall ]

No vice but hath its patron. [ Proverb ]

Vice rules where gold reigns. [ Proverb ]

Vice lives always displeased. [ Proverb ]

Let thy vices die before thee. [ Franklin ]

Vice is but a nurse of agonies. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

There is emulation even in vice. [ Eugene Sue ]

The never-failing vice of fools. [ Pope ]

I loathe that low vice, curiosity. [ Byron ]

There is even the dignity of vice. [ Rivarol ]

Pride is both a virtue and a vice. [ Theodore Parker ]

Virtue is health, vice is sickness. [ Petrarch ]

Vice must never plead prescription. [ Proverb ]

Spare the person, but lash the vice. [ Martial ]

Concealed goodness is a sort of vice. [ Proverb ]

Vice in its own pure native ugliness. [ Crabbe ]

The vices of some men are magnificent. [ Lamb ]

Flattery, the dangerous nurse of vice. [ Daniel ]

Virtue is voluntary, vice involuntary. [ Plato ]

To sanction vice and hunt decornm down. [ Byron ]

Avarice is the vice of declining years. [ George Bancroft ]

Beware of flattery, It is a weed
Which oft offends the very idol - vice,
Whose shrine it would perfume. [ Fenton ]

Ambition is not a vice of little people. [ Montaigne ]

Vice, that digs her own voluptuous tomb! [ Byron ]

There is no vice so simple but assumes
Some mark of virtue in his outward parts. [ William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice ]

Vice is a monster of so frightful mien,
As, to be hated, needs but to be seen;
Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face,
We first endure, then pity, then embrace. [ Alexander Pope ]

Generosity, wrong placed, becomes a vice.

Of every noble action the intent
Is to give worth reward - vice punishment. [ Beaumont and Fletcher ]

Idleness is the parent of vice and misery. [ Proverb ]

Sometimes virtue starves while vice is fed. [ Pope ]

Time spent in vice or folly is doubly lost. [ Proverb ]

And poor misfortune feels the lash of vice. [ Thomson ]

Few love to hear the sins they love to act. [ William Shakespeare ]

Silence is not the greatest vice of a woman. [ Proverb ]

Virtue by calculation is the virtue of vice. [ Joubert ]

Vices are often habits rather than passions. [ Rivarol ]

Virtue will catch as well as vice by contact. [ Burke ]

I hate ingratitude more in a man
Than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness,
Or any taint of vice, whose strong corruption
Inhabits our frail blood. [ William Shakespeare ]

Vice, like disease, floats in the atmosphere. [ Hazlitt ]

Vice is a peripatetic, always in progression. [ Owen Feltham ]

Of all the causes that conspire to blind
Man's erring judgment, and misguide the mind.
What the weak head with strongest bias rules,
Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools. [ Pope ]

A vicious man's son has a good title to vice. [ Proverb ]

To nurse up and keep a vice, is a vast charge. [ Proverb ]

Ah! that deceit should steal such gentle shapes
And with a virtuous visor hide deep vice. [ William Shakespeare, Richard III ]

Vice is abominable, when it preaches up virtue. [ Proverb ]

Vice often rides triumphant in virtue's chariot. [ Proverb ]

Vice gets more in this vicious world than piety. [ Fletcher ]

Hypocrisy is the homage which vice pays to virtue. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

Till vice gets an habit, there is a remedy for it. [ Proverb ]

Vice would be frightful, if it did not wear a mask. [ Proverb ]

Be a father to Virtue, but a father in-law to Vice. [ Proverb ]

What maintains one vice, will bring up two children. [ Benjamin Franklin ]

This is the essential evil of vice: it debases a man. [ Chapin ]

Though modesty be a virtue, yet bashfulness is a vice. [ Proverb ]

It costs more to satisfy a vice than to feed a family. [ Balzac ]

Nothing is more ordinary than for vice to correct sin. [ Proverb ]

Vice is its own punishment, and sometimes its own cure. [ Proverb ]

The proudest vice is ashamed to wear its own face long. [ Proverb ]

Hypocrisy is a sort of homage that vice pays to virtue. [ Proverb ]

The first step towards virtue, is to abstain from vice. [ Proverb ]

If you swallow vice it will rise badly in your stomach. [ Proverb ]

We condemn vice and extol virtue only through interest. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

There is no truth which personal vice will not distort. [ J. G. Holland ]

Hypocrisy is the ready homage that vice pays to virtue. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

To blush at vice, shews the world you are ashamed of it. [ Proverb ]

The maintaining of one vice, costs more than ten virtues. [ Proverb ]

As virtue is its own reward, so vice is its own punishment. [ Proverb ]

The disgrace of others often deters tender minds from vice. [ Horace ]

The vicious obey their passions, as slaves do their masters. [ Diogenes ]

The second vice is lying, the first being that of owing money. [ Proverb ]

Prudery is often the mantle chosen to conceal triumphant vice.

He deceitfully relates stories that are merely lessons in vice. [ Horace ]

Idleness is not a vice: it is a rust that destroys all virtues. [ Duc de Nemours ]

Every vice has a cloak, and creeps in under the name of virtue.

Flattery, which was formerly a vice, is now grown into a custom. [ Publius Syrus ]

Where secrecy or mystery begins, vice or roguery is not far off. [ Johnson ]

It is easier to run from virtue to vice, than from vice to virtue. [ Proverb ]

Virtue carries a reward with it; and so does vice with a vengeance. [ Proverb ]

Virtue and vice divide the world; but vice has got the greater share. [ Proverb ]

Every real need is appeased and every vice stimulated by satisfaction. [ Amiel ]

So for a good old-gentlemanly vice, I think I must take up with avarice. [ Byron ]

To me avarice seems not so much a vice as a deplorable piece of madness. [ Sir Thomas Browne ]

Friendship is given us by nature, , not to favor vice, but to aid virtue. [ Cicero ]

I am a great friend to public amusements; for they keep people from vice. [ Samuel Johnson ]

How can we explain the perpetuity of envy - a vice which yields no return? [ Balzac ]

Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues. [ Quintilian ]

Travellers should correct the vice of one country by the virtue of another. [ Proverb ]

Prosperity doth best discover vice, and adversity doth best discover virtue. [ Bacon ]

The world is not so much knave, that it holds honesty to be a vice and a folly. [ Proverb ]

There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice. [ Swift ]

If idleness do not produce vice or malevolence, it commonly produces melancholy. [ Sydney Smith ]

There is no vice so simple, but assumes some mark of virtue on its outward parts. [ William Shakespeare ]

Old age has deformities enough of its own; do not add to it the deformity of vice. [ Cato ]

The first vice of the first woman was curiosity, and it runs through the whole sex. [ Richardson ]

There dwelleth in the sinlessness of youth a sweet rebuke that vice may not endure. [ Mrs. Embury ]

The friendships of the world are often confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasure. [ Addison ]

There is no vice or folly that requires so much nicety and skill to manage as vanity. [ Swift ]

If ridicule were employed to laugh men out of vice and folly, it might be of some use. [ Addison ]

Generosity, wrong placed, becometh a vice; a princely mind will undo a private family. [ Fuller ]

Fattened in vice, so callous and so gross, he sins and sees not, senseless of his loss. [ Dryden ]

There is in hypocrisy as much folly as vice: it is as easy to be honest as to appear so. [ Mme. de Stael ]

Hypocrisy has become a fashionable vice, and every fashionable vice passes for a virtue. [ Moliere ]

There is God's poor, and the devil's poor; the first from providence, the other from vice. [ Proverb ]

Reckon no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may overlook it. [ Confucius ]

Prudence is a quality incompatible with vice, and can never be effectively enlisted in its cause. [ Burke ]

The drama is the looking-glass in which we see the hideousness of vice and the beauties of virtue. [ Frances Anne Kemble ]

Cheerfulness is the friend and helper of all good graces, and the absence of it is certainly a vice. [ Aughey ]

Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself. [ Dr. Johnson ]

Freedom and slavery, the one is the name of virtue, and the other of vice and both are acts of the will. [ Epictetus ]

Childish, imbecile carelessness is enough to render any man poor, without the aid of a single positive vice. [ Francis Wayland ]

Other vices make their own way; this makes way for all vices. He that is a drunkard is qualified for all vice. [ Francis Quarles ]

The sight of a drunkard is a better sermon against that vice than the best that was ever preached upon that subject. [ Saville ]

Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littlenesses, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies. [ Balzac ]

Want of prudence is too frequently the want of virtue; nor is there on earth a more powerful advocate for vice than poverty. [ Goldsmith ]

Calumny is a vice of curious constitution; trying to kill it keeps it alive; leave it to itself and it will die a natural death. [ Thomas Paine ]

When a man has been guilty of any vice or folly, I think the best atonement he can make for it is to warn others not to fall into the like. [ Addison ]

Irresolution is a worse vice than rashness. He that shoots best, may sometimes miss the mark; but he that shoots not at all, will never hit it. [ Owen Feltham ]

Wit, like hunger, will be with great difficulty restrained from falling on vice and ignorance, where there is great plenty and variety of food. [ Fielding ]

Pride is a vice not only dreadfully mischievous in human society, but perhaps of all others, the most insuperable bar to real inward improvement. [ Mrs. E. Carter ]

There is no vice or crime that does not originate in self-love; and there is no virtue that does not grow from the love of others out of and beyond self. [ Anon ]

The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it. [ George Washington ]

In all the world there is no vice Less prone to excess than avarice; It neither cares for food nor clothing; Nature's content with little - that with nothing. [ Butler ]

He that is good will infallibly become better, and he that is bad will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue, and time are three things that never stand still. [ Caleb C. Colton ]

Title and ancestry render a good man more illustrious, but an ill one more contemptible. Vice is infamous, though in a prince, and virtue honorable, though in a peasant. [ Addison ]

It is only in some corner of the brain which we leave empty, that Vice can obtain a lodging. When he knocks at your door, be able to say, No room for your lordship, pass on! [ Edward Bulwer Lytton ]

Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman, I care not what his stamp may be in society; I care not what clothes be wears, or what culture he boasts. [ Chapin ]

Hypocrisy of manners, a vice peculiar to modern nations, has contributed more than one thinks to destroy that energy of character which distinguished the nations of antiquity. [ Condorcet ]

Let parents who hate their offspring rear them to hate labor, and to inherit riches; and before long they will be stung by every vice, racked by its poison, and damned by its penalty. [ H. W. Beecher ]

We are not to be astonished that the wise walk more slowly in their road to virtue than fools in their passage to vice; since passion drags us along, while wisdom only points out the way. [ Confucius ]

If misery be the effect of virtue, it ought to be reverenced; if of ill-fortune, to be pitied; and if of vice, not to be insulted, because it is perhaps itself a punishment adequate to the crime by which it was produced. [ Dr. Johnson ]

Women who are the least bashful are not unfrequently the most modest; and we are never more deceived than when we would infer any laxity of principle from that freedom of demeanor which often arises from a total ignorance of vice. [ Colton ]

To this end, nothing is to be more carefully consulted than plainness. In a lady's attire this is the single excellence: for to be what some people, call fine, is the same vice, in that case, as to be florid is in writing or speaking. [ Addison ]

When all moves equally (says Pascal), nothing seems to move, as in a vessel under sail; and when all run by common consent into vice, none appear to do so. He that stops first, views as from a fixed point the horrible extravagance that transports the rest. [ Colton ]

Avarice is a uniform and tractable vice; other intellectual distempers are different in different constitutions of mind. That which soothes the pride of one will offend the pride of another, but to the favor of the covetous bring money, and nothing is denied. [ Johnson ]

Good-nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit, and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty. It shows virtue in the fairest light; takes off in some measure from the deformity of vice; and makes even folly and impertinence supportable. [ Addison ]

The stifled hum of midnight, when traffic has lain down to rest, and the chariot wheels of Vanity, still rolling here and there through distant streets are bearing her to halls roofed in and lighted to the due pitch for her; and only vice and misery, to prowl or to moan like night birds, are abroad. [ Carlyle ]

In most old communities there is a commonsense even in sensuality. Vice itself gets gradually digested into a system, is amenable to certain laws of conventional propriety and honor, has for its object simply the gratification of its appetites, and frowns with quite a conservative air on all new inventions, all untried experiments in iniquity. [ Whipple ]

The motives of the best actions will not bear too strict an inquiry. It is allowed that the cause of most actions, good or bad, may be resolved into the love of ourselves; but the self-love of some men inclines them to please others, and the self-love of others is wholly employed in pleasing themselves. This makes the great distinction between virtue and vice. [ Swift ]

Irresolution is a worse vice than rashness. He that shoots best may sometimes miss the mark; but he that shoots not at all can never hit it. Irresolution loosens all the joints of a state; like an ague, it shakes not this nor that limb, but all the body is at once in a fit. The irresolute man is lifted from one place to another; so hatcheth nothing, but addles all his actions. [ Feltham ]

I have so great a contempt and detestation for meanness, that I could sooner make a friend of one who had committed murder, than of a person who could be capable, in any instance, of the former vice. Under meanness, I comprehend dishonesty; under dishonesty, ingratitude; under ingratitude, irreligion; and under this latter, every species of vice and immorality in human nature. [ Sterne ]

Gaze not on beauty too much, lest it blast thee; nor too long, lest it blind thee; nor too near, lest it burn thee. If thou like it, it deceives thee; if thou love it, it disturbs thee; if thou hunt after it, it destroys thee. If virtue accompany it, it is the heart's paradise; if vice associate it, it is the soul's purgatory. It is the wise man's bonfire, and the fool's furnace. [ Quarles ]

Whosoever shall look heedfully upon those who are eminent for their riches will not think their condition such as that he should hazard his quiet, and much less his virtue, to obtain it, for all that great wealth generally gives above a moderate fortune is more room for the freaks of caprice, and more privilege for ignorance and vice, a quicker succession of flatteries, and a larger circle of voluptuousness. [ Johnson ]

Calumny is a monstrous vice: for, where parties indulge in it, there are always two that are actively engaged in doing wrong, and one who is subject to injury. The calumniator inflicts wrong by slandering the absent; he who gives credit to the calumny before he has investigated the truth is equally implicated. The person traduced is doubly injured - first by him who propagates, and secondly by him who credits the calumny. [ Heroidotus ]

I suppose as long as novels last, and authors aim at interesting their public, there must always be in the story a virtuous and gallant hero; a wicked monster, his opposite; and a pretty girl, who finds a champion. Bravery and virtue conquer beauty; and vice, after seeming to triumph through a certain number of pages, is sure to be discomfited in the last volume, when justice overtakes him, and honest folks come by their own. [ Thackeray ]

Out of the ashes of misanthropy benevolence rises again; we find many virtues where we had imagined all was vice, many acts of disinterested friendship where we had fancied all was calculation and fraud - and so gradually from the two extremes we pass to the proper medium; and, feeling that no human being is wholly good or wholly base, we learn that true knowledge of mankind which induces us to expect little and forgive much. The world cures alike the optimist and the misanthrope. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

vice in Scrabble®

The word vice is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 9

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vice in Words With Friends™

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Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 11

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