Creatures Quote by Finley Peter Dunne

Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it

— Finley Peter Dunne

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

I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.

— Moliere

“All around were people such as the eternal petty bourgeois of all lands eyes with the instinctive hatred of the bandy-legged mongrel for a…

— Gustav Meyrink

“If a wretched man has a vice, it shows itself in the lines of his mouth, the droop of his eyelids, the moulding of…

— Oscar Wilde

A vice is merely a pleasure to which somebody has objected.

— Robin Skelton

I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.

— Moliere

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

— Ben Jonson

As regards this vice, we read that the peacock is more guilty of it than any other animal. For it is always contemplating the…

— Leonardo da Vinci

No vice exists which does not pretend to be more or less like some virtue, and which does not take advantage of this assumed…

— Jean de la Bruyere

“A vice is merely a pleasure that someone else has objected to.”

— Robin Skelton

Let thy vices die before thee.

— Benjamin Franklin