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I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.

Vice, by comparison with terrible accidents, has its own peculiar explanation. For, in a way, it does occur in accordance with the rationale of nature, and its occurrence is not, so to speak, useless in relation to the whole world. For otherwise, the good would not exist, either.

In my estimation, the only thing that is more to be guarded against than bad taste is good taste.

The kind of people who always go on about whether a thing is in good taste invariably have very bad taste.

Most of the bad taste I've been accused of has been generic bad taste; it's been making fun of an idea as opposed to a person.

This is the essential evil of vice, that it debases man.

It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.