Character Quote by Charles Caleb Colton

A man is fortunate if he encounters living examples of vice, as well as of virtue, to inspire him.

— Brendan Behan

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

— Edmund Waller

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

— Katy Lederer

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

— Thornton Wilder

The martyrs to vice far exceed the martyrs to virtue, both in endurance and in number.

— Charles Caleb Colton

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

— William Hazlitt

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

Virtue consists in fleeing vice.

— Horace

Vice, like virtue, Grows in small steps, and no true innocence Can ever fall at once to deepest guilt.

— Jean Racine

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

— Dominique Bouhours

Vice stirs up war, virtue fights.

— Luc de Clapiers

Men wish to be saved from the mischiefs of their vices, but not from their vices.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson