Vice and virtue Quotes

Vice and virtue chiefly imply the relation of our actions to men in this world; sin and holiness rather imply their relation…

— Isaac Watts

It takes a vice to check a vice, and virtue is the by-product of a stalemate between opposite vices.

— Eric Hoffer

It is not, perhaps, unreasonable to conclude, that a pure and perfect democracy is a thing not attainable by man, constituted as…

— Alexander Fraser Tytler

Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency

— Maya Angelou

Virtue consists in avoiding scandal and venereal disease.

— Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury

Vice knows she is ugly, so puts on her mask.

— Benjamin Franklin

Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.

— John Dryden

A vice is merely a pleasure to which somebody has objected.

— Robin Skelton

One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential.

— Maya Angelou

It is convention and arbitrary rewards which make all the merit and demerit of what we call vice and virtue.

— Julien Offray de La Mettrie

Yes, I laugh at all mankind, and the imposition that they dare to practice when they talk of hearts. I laugh at…

— Charles Robert Maturin

[I]f vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established.

— Algernon Sidney

Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.

— Alexander Pope

Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it.

— Confucius

Vice, virtue - it's best not to be too moral. You'll cheat yourself out of too much life.

— Ruth Gordon

So does a whole world, with all its greatnesses and littlenesses, lie in a twinkling star. And as mere human knowledge can…

— Charles Dickens

“Features alone do not run in the blood; vices and virtues, genius and folly, are transmitted through the same sure but unseen…

— William Hazlitt

The vices we scoff at in others laugh at us within ourselves.

— Thomas Browne

There are some who write, talk, and think, so much about vice and virtue, that they have no time to practice either…

— Charles Caleb Colton

The extremes of vice and virtue are alike detestable, and absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice…

— Samuel Butler

Courage is the form of every virtue at the testing point.

— Lynn G. Robbins

To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

— Gautama Buddha

Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker.

— Dorothy Parker

Vice is its own reward.

— Quentin Crisp

Every vice has its excuse ready.

— Publilius Syrus