Character Quote by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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

— Abraham Lincoln

Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.

— Alexander Pope

The vices enter into the composition of the virtues, as poisons into that of medicines. Prudence collects and arranges them, and uses them beneficially…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There are some who write, talk, and think, so much about vice and virtue, that they have no time to practice either the one…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Our vices are the excesses of our virtues.

— Pleasant Rowland

Vices are simply overworked virtues.

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

“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

Our virtues make us; but virtues are not enough, we must deploy our vices at times

— Hilary Mantel

The absence of vices adds so little to the sum of one's virtues.

— Antonio Machado

Error is to be pitied and pardoned: it is the weakness of human nature. But vice is a foul blemish, not pardonable in any…

— Thomas Jefferson

“Evil must constantly re-spawn, while good, while virtue, is immortal. Vice has always a new fresh young face. While virtue is venerable as nothing…

— john steinbeck

In sum, all actions and habits are to be esteemed good or evil by their causes and usefulness in reference to the commonwealth, and…

— Thomas Hobbes