Character Quote by john steinbeck

“In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men want to be good and want to be loved. Indeed, most…

— John Steinbeck

We have only one story. All novels, all poetry, are built on the neverending contest in ourselves of good and evil. And it occurs…

— John Steinbeck

“Evil is moral at it heart. The selection of vice over virtue; you can pretend not to know, you can rationalize, but you know…

— Gregory Maguire

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

— Guglielmo Ferrero

“Live by old Ethicks and the classical Rules of Honesty. Put no new names or notions upon Authentick Virtues and Vices. Think not that…

— Sir Thomas Browne

Virtue and vice, evil and good, are siblings, or next-door neighbors, Easy to make mistakes, hard to tell them apart.

— Ovid

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

— Abraham Lincoln

“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

“I would sooner have fifty unnatural vices than one unnatural virtue. It is unnatural virtue that makes the world, for those who suffer, such…

— Oscar Wilde

What's vice today may be virtue, tomorrow.

— Henry Fielding

“Evil never sleeps, and Virtue is ever-vigilant.”

— Terry Pratchett

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

— Will Durant