Character Quote by Gordon R. Dickson

“It is by giving fair names to foul actions that those who would start at real vice are led to practise its lessons, under…

— Walter Scott

“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

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

— Robin Skelton

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

— Guglielmo Ferrero

“There is probably no one, however rigid his virtue, who is not liable to find himself, by the complexity of circumstances, living at close…

— Marcel Proust

“There is no worse penalty for vice than the fact that it is dissatisfied with itself and all its fellows.”

— Seneca

“In those days the worst vice in England was pride, I guess—the worst vice of all, because folks thought it was a virtue.”

— Carol Ryrie Brink

Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.

— Will Durant

Who was it who said that every virtue contains its corresponding vice? C.S. Lewis? Virginia Woolf? You forget. But it has always worried you…

— Kevin Brockmeier

“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

There is no vice so simple but assumes some mark of virtue on his outward parts.

— William Shakespeare

“Encouraging virtue is better than suppressing vice.”

— Raheel Farooq