Character Quote by Paul Valery

Vices are simply overworked virtues.

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

“Evil must constantly re-spawn, while good, while virtue, is immortal. Vice has always a new fresh young face. While virtue is venerable as nothing…

— john steinbeck

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

— Will Durant

Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.

— Alexander Pope

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

— Abraham Lincoln

“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

Where a reputation for intolerance is more feared than a reputation for vice itself, all manner of evil may be expected to flourish.

— Theodore Dalrymple

No one in Germany laughs at vice, nor do they call it the fashion to corrupt and to be corrupted.

— Tacitus

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

— Thornton Wilder

The absence of vices adds so little to the sum of one's virtues.

— Antonio Machado

His vices were the vices of his time and culture, but his virtues transcended the milieu of his life.

— Orson Scott Card

Vice stirs up war, virtue fights.

— Luc de Clapiers