Character Quote by Jean Racine

Virtue steals, like a guilty thing, into the secret haunts of vice and infamy, clings to their devoted victim, and will not be driven…

— William Hazlitt

Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.

— Juvenal

To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.

— Ouida

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

— William Shakespeare

Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit--or a mask.

— William Hazlitt

Vice has more martyrs than virtue; and it often happens that men suffer more to be lost than to be saved.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Virtue sometimes pretends. Vice is always sincere.

— Mason Cooley

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

— Edmund Waller

Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it.

— Confucius

When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice.

— Barbara Amiel

Innocence alone dares commit certain acts of audacity. Virtue, when tutored, is as calculating as vice.

— Honore de Balzac

Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice.

— Horace Walpole