Hands Quote by C. S. Lewis

He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place.

— Charles Caleb Colton

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

— Thornton Wilder

Beware of greed and remain pure and just. Restrain yourself from every vice. He who cannot restrain himself, how will he be able to…

— Polycarp

There is no vice so simple but assumes some mark of virtue on his outward parts.

— William Shakespeare

Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast; But shall the dignity of vice be lost?

— Alexander Pope

Who does not sufficiently hate vice, does not sufficiently love virtue.

— Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

He that rectifies a crooked stick bends it the contrary way, so must he that would reform a vice learn to affect its mere…

— Roger Chamberlain

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

— George Bernard Shaw

If he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, sir, when he leaves our houses let us count…

— Samuel Johnson

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

— Abraham Lincoln

“But because this man listens and that man scoffs, and most are enamored of the blandishments of vice rather than the wholesome severity of…

— Philip Schaff

You may have noted the fact that it is a person's virtues as often as his vices that make him difficult to live with.

— Kate Douglas Wiggin