Georgian Quote by Emery Lee

“In order to know virtue, we must acquaint ourselves with vice. Only then can we know the true measure of a man.”

— Marquis de Sade

Vice, in its true light, is so deformed, that it shocks us at first sight; and would hardly ever seduce us, if it did…

— Anonymous

“Show me a man without vice and I'll show you one without virtue!”

— Pittacus Lore

“Why should there be some sort of virtue always attributed to a frank admission of vice?”

— Gordon R. Dickson

“It is better to reveal a weakness than allow oneself be suspected of a vice.”

— Denis Diderot

“There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false and perfidious.”

— Anonymous

“I would sooner have fifty unnatural vices than one unnatural virtue. It is unnatural virtue that makes the world, for those who suffer, such…

— Oscar Wilde

“Ambrosio was yet to learn, that to an heart unacquainted with her, Vice is ever most dangerous when lurking behind the Mask of Virtue.”

— Matthew Gregory Lewis

“He who wishes to preserve, often destroys, so that virtue seems vice, and vice seems virtue.”

— Guglielmo Ferrero

“What we're fighting against isn't an out-and-out vice. It's an overgrown, perverted virtue.”

— Jared Taylor

“the partner of his guilt, should be hurled from the pinnacle of unsullied virtue, down to the lowest abyss of infamy and degradation: in…

— John William Polidori

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

— William Hazlitt