Character Quote by Brendan Behan

If a man has no vices, he is in great danger of making vices about his virtues, and there's a spectacle.

— Thornton Wilder

Vice has more martyrs than virtue; and it often happens that men suffer more to be lost than to be saved.

— Charles Caleb Colton

My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.

— Abraham Lincoln

The life of a good man is at the same time the most eloquent lesson of virtue and the most severe reproof of vice.

— Samuel Smiles

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

— William Hazlitt

There are some persons on whom virtue sits almost as ungraciously as vice.

— Dominique Bouhours

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

— Edmund Waller

Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied, And vice sometime by action dignified.

— William Shakespeare

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

— Katy Lederer

I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.

— Moliere

His vices were the vices of his time and culture, but his virtues transcended the milieu of his life.

— Orson Scott Card

“Show me a man without vice and I'll show you one without virtue!”

— Pittacus Lore