Character Quote by Hilary Mantel

Our virtues make us; but virtues are not enough, we must deploy our vices at times

— Hilary Mantel

“People who have no vices, have very few virtues.”

— Abraham Lincoln

Our vices are the excesses of our virtues.

— Pleasant Rowland

“the problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure there going to have some pretty annoying virtues”

— Elizabeth Taylor

Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.

— Alexander Pope

Our virtues, as well as our vices, are often scourges for our own backs.

— Mary Elizabeth Braddon

“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

“If we can spend more time uprooting vices and rooting virtues, our world will be safer and better.”

— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

Some people with great virtues are disagreeable, while others with great vices are delightful.

— Duc De La Rochefoucals

“Virtue lies in our power, and similarly so does vice; because where it is in our power to act, it is also in our…

— Aristotle

How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!

— Honore de Balzac

“What blurt is this about virtue and about vice? Evil propels me and reform of evil propels me, I stand indifferent, My gait is…

— Walt Whitman