Character Quote by Fanny Kemble

“Might not certain vices have the same relation to character that the rigidity of a fixed idea as to intellect? Whether as a moral…

— Henri Bergson

She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other to virtue, is a…

— Oliver Goldsmith

Vice is a monster of so frightful mien As to be hated needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her…

— Alexander Pope

“People hate to see their vices depicted, but vice is terrible and it should be depicted.”

— Aubrey Beardsley

Virtue may not always make a Face handsome, but Vice will certainly make it ugly.

— Benjamin Franklin

“It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their…

— Oscar Wilde

The drama is not a mere copy of nature, not a facsimile. It is the free running hand of genius, under the impression of…

— Leigh Hunt

Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.

— Ben Jonson

Vice stirs up war, virtue fights.

— Luc de Clapiers

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

Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of…

— Horace Walpole

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

— Edmund Waller