Character Quote by Jonathan Swift

The vices of some men are magnificent.

— Charles Lamb

In sum, all actions and habits are to be esteemed good or evil by their causes and usefulness in reference to the commonwealth, and…

— Thomas Hobbes

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

— Duc De La Rochefoucals

A man is fortunate if he encounters living examples of vice, as well as of virtue, to inspire him.

— Brendan Behan

“Because he hates to praise by name He praises everybody. Vice And virtue must look much the same To one who calls the whole…

— Martial

If a man has no vices, he is in great danger of making vices about his virtues, and there's a spectacle.

— Thornton Wilder

There are some persons on whom virtue sits almost as ungraciously as vice.

— Dominique Bouhours

A real intelligent or brilliant or intellectual or genius or wise is always nice to distinguish and differentiate effortlessly the virtues from the vice…

— Anuj Somany

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

It is not the most distinguished achievements that men's virtues or vices may be best discovered; but very often an action of small note.…

— Plutarch

You may have noted the fact that it is a person's virtues as often as his vices that make him difficult to live with.

— Kate Douglas Wiggin

Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld