“Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it.”— Mary Astell
“Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.”— Honoré de Balzac
“Idleness is the bane of body and mind, the nurse of naughtiness, the chief author of all mischief.”— Robert Burton
“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.”— John Cleese
“Of all the plagues with which the world is curst, Of every ill, a drunkard is the worst.”— Charles Cotton
“The suppression of vice is as much the law's business as the suppression of subversive activities.”— Patrick Devlin
“The whole world is a slave, some is a slave to the bottle, and some to the women, and some to the money.”— Willie Dixon
“My father warned me about men and booze, but he never said anything about women and cocaine.”— Tallulah Bankhead