Character Quote by Charles Caleb Colton

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

— Dominique Bouhours

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

— Katy Lederer

In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.

— Marquis de Sade

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

— Abraham Lincoln

Most virtue lies between two vices.

— Horace

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

— Barbara Amiel

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

— William Hazlitt

In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa.

— Samuel Butler

Vice is a dreary business. And virtue is not a lot of fun, either.

— Mason Cooley

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

— Edmund Waller

Virtue sometimes pretends. Vice is always sincere.

— Mason Cooley

Vices are simply overworked virtues.

— Laura Ingalls Wilder