Character Quote by Noah Webster

They that endeavour to abolish vice destroy also virtue, for contraries, though they destroy one another, are yet the life of one another.

— Thomas Browne

We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.

— Henry Fielding

Our religion is made to eradicate vices, instead it encourages them, covers them, and nurtures them.

— Michel de Montaigne

Our vices are the excesses of our virtues.

— Pleasant Rowland

We don't see the people that vice destroys. We just see the glamour of it - everywhere we look, from billboard signs to movies,…

— Bob Dylan

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

— Oliver Goldsmith

“If we can spend more time uprooting vices and rooting virtues, our world will be safer and better.”

— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

In the history of mankind, fanaticism has caused more harm than vice.

— Louis Kronenberger

“Encouraging virtue is better than suppressing vice.”

— Raheel Farooq

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

Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.

— Mary Astell

“private vice can be publicly beneficial”

— Bernard Mandeville