Telling the truth Quote by Aldous Huxley

“We feel something like respect for consistency even in error. We lament the virtue that is debauched into a vice, but the vice that…

— Thomas Paine

“A vice is a thing which may be applauded in moderation but becomes horrific in overuse.”

— Graham Moore

Fattened in vice, so callous and so gross, he sins and sees not, senseless of his loss.

— John Dryden

“I enjoyed perfect health of body, and tranquillity of mind; I did not feel the treachery or inconstancy of a friend, nor the injuries…

— Jonathan Swift

Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.

— Ben Jonson

“That vice has often proved an emancipator of the mind, is one of the most humiliating, but, at the same time, one of the…

— Anonymous

“A vice is merely a pleasure that someone else has objected to.”

— Robin Skelton

“Vices have to masquerade as virtues — lust as love, thinly veiled sadism as military discipline, envy as righteous indignation, domestic tyranny as parental concern.”

— Cornelius Plantinga Jr

“If a wretched man has a vice, it shows itself in the lines of his mouth, the droop of his eyelids, the moulding of…

— Oscar Wilde

“A very ridiculous thing it is, that any man should dispense with vice and wickedness in himself, which is in his power to restrain;…

— Marcus Aurelius

The gross debaucheries and atrocious cruelties are covered with a resplendent mental veil because of the systematic exposition of the philosophic principles in all…

— Iwan Bloch

The cunning tempter, by avoiding the grossness of vice, often silences objections.

— Antoine Rivarol