Absent Quote by Margaret Drabble

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice.

— Henry David Thoreau

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

— Thornton Wilder

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

It is thus that you may lead a charmed life and be forever protected from all harm; it is thus you may become a…

— Charles F. Haanel

Should you be unfortunate enough to have vices, you may, to a certain degree, even dignify them by a strict observance of decorum;at least…

— Lord Chesterfield

The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.…

— Elizabeth Taylor

The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.

— Elizabeth Taylor

Vice goes along way towards making life bearable. A little vice now and then is relished by the best of men.

— Finley Peter Dunne

Our virtues are most often but our vices disguised

— François De La Rochefoucauld

Virtue may be assailed, but never hurt, Surprised by unjust force, but not enthralled.

— John Milton