Top Vices Quotes

We never like the smell of our own vices in other people, Holmes. Ah, let's steer here for a drink or two, Lowell suggested.

That's why we make enemies of our friends as soon as they start to drift, he thought, cos that way they get stuck with all our flaws, unlike when they're shared. Maybe brief friendships are best. If y...

I have too much respect for the truth to drag it out on every trifling occasion.

We all have those things that help us carry on through life. It is important that these things upon which we depend for daily strength are healthy for our character rather than harmful. We must ask ou...

True sense of humour and true, deep happiness never depend on the after effects of destructive vices

We'd all like a reputation for generosity and we'd all like to buy it cheap.

The rich can be "eccentric " the poor have to be considered "nuts."

I don't gamble. I invest with a risk.

I'm not at all stuck up . . . although judging from those around me I have every right to be.

No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have - and I think he's a dirty little beast.

The worst thing about a bore is not that he won't stop talking but that he won't let you stop listening.

Horse sense is what keeps horses from betting on what people will do.

Well-adjusted means you can make the same mistakes over and over again and keep smiling.

You can't act like a skunk without someone's getting wind of it.

My mother said "You won't amount to anything because you procrastinate." I said "Just wait."

No man can cause more grief than the one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancesters.

He could sell the Pope on financing a Mormon tabernacle.

To love a woman for her virtues is meaningless. She's earned it, it's a payment, not a gift. But to love her for her vices is a real gift, unearned and undeserved. To love her for her vices is to defi...

The ability to sin differs among people. For example a short-armed fisherman isn't as big a liar as a long-armed one.

After twelve years of therapy my psychiatrist said something that brought tears to my eyes. He said "No bablo ingles."