Character Quote by Dean Koontz

“habits of virtue and vice are caused by acts”

— Aristotle

“People who have no vices, have very few virtues.”

— Abraham Lincoln

“For, not seeing the whole truth, they could not attain to perfect virtue. Some considering nature as incorrupt, others as incurable, they could not…

— Blaise Pascal

“Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice. Goodness is the only investment that never fails.”

— Henry David Thoreau

“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

“Do not grieve over temptations you suffer. When the Lord intends to bestow a particular virtue on us, He often permits us first to…

— Anonymous

“the problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure there going to have some pretty annoying virtues”

— Elizabeth Taylor

“Without temptation what value is virtue?”

— Ian Brady

“We do not despise all those with vices, but we do despise all those without a single virtue.”

— Francois La Rochefoucauld

“I tried to think of a vice I want to sacrifice, and ended up reasoning that I need my bad habits, desperately, just to…

— Sara Baume

“Yes, my particular virtue of being very often objective, and thus sidetracked from thinking about myself, suffers lapses of affirmation, as do all virtues…

— Fernando Pessoa

“People always brag about their vices; it is when they begin to brag about their virtues that they become insufferable.”

— G.K. Chesterton