Character Quote by Adam Smith

The fear of punishment may be necessary to the suppression of vice; but it also suspends the finer motives of virtue.

— William Hazlitt

Weakness is more opposed to virtue than is vice.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

— George Bernard Shaw

When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice.

— Barbara Amiel

I think it is extremely interesting to think that, in some cases, vice might be, finally, more redemptive than virtue.

— Katy Lederer

The mere abhorrence of vice is not a virtue at all.

— Bergen Evans

There is neither vice nor virtue, there are only circumstances.

— Honore de Balzac

But virtue too, as well as vice, is clad in flesh and blood.

— Edmund Waller

Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit--or a mask.

— William Hazlitt

There is some virtue in almost every vice, except hypocrisy; and even that, while it is a mockery of virtue, is at the same…

— William Hazlitt

“Encouraging virtue is better than suppressing vice.”

— Raheel Farooq

Virtue steals, like a guilty thing, into the secret haunts of vice and infamy, clings to their devoted victim, and will not be driven…

— William Hazlitt