Character Quote by Honore de Balzac

There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.

— Oliver Goldsmith

In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.

— Marquis de Sade

Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied, And vice sometime by action dignified.

— William Shakespeare

Our vices are the excesses of our virtues.

— Pleasant Rowland

I think it is extremely interesting to think that, in some cases, vice might be, finally, more redemptive than virtue.

— Katy Lederer

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

— Hilary Mantel

We feel something like respect for consistency even in error. We lament the virtue that is debauched into a vice; but the vice that…

— Thomas Paine

When we envy another, we make their virtue our vice.

— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa.

— Samuel Butler

Vices are simply overworked virtues.

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast; But shall the dignity of vice be lost?

— Alexander Pope

The life of a good man is at the same time the most eloquent lesson of virtue and the most severe reproof of vice.

— Samuel Smiles