Connected Quote by Edward Gibbon

Vice may triumph for a time, crime may flaunt its victories in the face of honest toilers, but in the end the law will…

— Allan Pinkerton

“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

“His virtues were so conspicuous that his enemies, unable to overlook them, denied them, and his friends, to whose loose lives they were a…

— Ambrose Bierce

They that endeavour to abolish vice destroy also virtue, for contraries, though they destroy one another, are yet the life of one another.

— Thomas Browne

Vice stirs up war, virtue fights.

— Luc de Clapiers

All is extremely genteel; and there is almost as much repose as in the golden saloons of the contiguous palaces. At any rate, if…

— Isaac D'Israeli

“Crime is a rigid, unbending master, against whom no one can be strong except by total rebellion”

— Alessandro Manzoni

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

There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.

— William Hazlitt

“Was man, indeed, at once so powerful, so virtuous and magnificent, yet so vicious and base? He appeared at one time a mere scion…

— Mary Shelley

The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise isgone! it isgone, that sensibility of…

— Edmund Burke

Vice has more martyrs than virtue; and it often happens that men suffer more to be lost than to be saved.

— Charles Caleb Colton