Vice quotes

“The worst vice is advice.”

Al Pacino - Charles Abrams

“I must have gone through $10 million during my career. Part of the loot went for gambling, part for horses, and part for women. The rest I spent foolishly.
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George Raft

“- Aunt Alicia: Love, my dear Gigi, is a thing of beauty like a work of art, and like a work of art it is created by artists. The greater the artist the greater the art. And what makes an artist?
- Gigi: Cigars and jewelry?
- Aunt Alicia: Gigi, you're from another planet.”
Isabel Jeans - Aunt Alicia
Leslie Caron - Gigi

“Doctors! They've deprived me of everything: alcohol, tobacco, female companionship!”
Charles Laughton - Sir Wilfrid Roberts

“- Professor Isak Borg: Give me a cigar, anytime. That's stimulating and relaxing. That's a vice for men.
- Marianne Borg: And what vices may a woman have?
- Professor Isak Borg: Weeping, giving birth and speaking ill of her neighbors.”
Victor Sjöström - Dr. Eberhard Isak Borg
Ingrid Thulin - Marianne Borg

“One way or another, we all work for our vice.”
Sam Jaffe - Doc Erwin Riedenschneider

“Nice state of affairs when a man has to indulge his vices by proxy.”
Charles Waldron - General Sternwood

“I am my own Judas.”
Rupert Everett - Oscar Wilde

“All I'm saying, Reggie, dear, is I have lived in the grip of vice and pleasure. It was wrong and I have paid. Perhaps the slate is wiped clean, perhaps it is not, who knows? At any rate, I am now ready to return to life.”
Rupert Everett - Oscar Wilde

“- Newt: I need to get going. Find everyone who's escaped, before they get hurt.
- Jacob Kowalski: Before they get hurt?
- Newt: Yes, Mr. Kowalski. For they're currently in alien terrain surrounded by millions of the most vicious creatures on the planet... Humans.”
Eddie Redmayne - Newt
Dan Fogler - Jacob Kowalski

“All right, I am what they say: I am a liar, a charlatan! I've deceived my whole life! But if I could, for one moment, change this world for the better, I would give up everything! Everything! I'd give up drink, money, wom... drink and money!”
Stanley Tucci - Merlin

“- Detective McBain: Man, you're picking up bad habits left and right.
- Douglas Hall: Must be the stress.
- Detective McBain: Then you'll need a carton.”

Dennis Haysbert - Detective Larry McBain
Craig Bierko - Douglas Hall

“- Imogen: Post-collegiate life, half full or half empty?
- Al Connelly: Half empty.
- Imogen: I'd have to go with half empty too. Your greatest accomplishment since I last saw you?
- Al Connelly: Making friends with a spider.
- Imogen: Vices?
- Al Connelly: Shampoo.”
Julia Stiles - Imogen
Freddie Prinze Jr. - Al Connelly

“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.”
Liz Taylor

“Live happily ever after with a Chablis and some laughter, between the sheets is lovely with a dizzy blonde and a bottle of bubbly.”

Sir Christopher Lee - Mr. Midnight

“- Eleanor Miller: Excuse me, sir, but you wouldn't want to marry Brittany. She's... Well, she's very difficult.
- Jeanette Miller: And she's not very tidy.
- Eleanor Miller: And her cooking is atrocious!
- Jeanette Miller: And she spends money like a drunken sailor!”

Janice Karman - Eleanor Miller
Janice Karman - Jeanette Miller

“Vice, Virtue. It's best not to be too moral. You cheat yourself out of too much life. Aim above morality. If you apply that to life, then you're bound to live life fully.”
Ruth Gordon - Maude

“Avoid all vice and passion - it preys on human frailty.”
Dirk Benedict - Alexander Harris

“I've seen things in this city that make Dante's Inferno read like Winnie The Pooh.”
Peter Weller - Stuart Chappell

“I don't smoke, you quit drinking, Bob here wouldn't even dream of lusting after a woman... between the three of us, we're practically Jesus.”
Kevin Spacey - Larry Mann

“If I had all the money I'd spent on drink, I'd spend it on drink.”
Trevor Howard - Sir Henry Rawlinson

“- Matt Hobbs: Washington? Washington, boy, that must have been a big adjustment.
- Nan Mulhanney: It wasn't that bad. Both places have a lot in common: Over-privileged people, crazed by their fear of losing their privileges. Alcoholism. Addiction. Betrayal. The near total degradation of what once were grand motives. The same spiritual...” (continue)(continue reading)
Nick Nolte - Matt Hobbs
Julie Kavner - Nan Mulhanney

“Well I'm a nun, not a saint!”

Johanna ter Steege - Sister Wilhelminia

“This valorous visitation of a by-gone vexation, stands vivified and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition.”

Hugo Weaving - V

“I'm not kind, I'm vicious. It's the secret of my charm.”
Clifton Webb - Waldo Lydecker