Christian Quote by Peter Damian

Vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.

— Edmund Burke

In the kitchens of love, after all, vice is like the pepper in a good sauce; it brings out the flavor, it’s indispensable.

— Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Vice is nice, but a little virtue won't hurt you.

— Edward Gorey

No vice exists which does not pretend to be more or less like some virtue, and which does not take advantage of this assumed…

— Jean de la Bruyere

Vices are ingredients of virtues just as poisons are ingredients of remedies. Prudence mixes and tempers them and uses them effectively against life's ills.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it

— Finley Peter Dunne

I find that the best virtue I have has in it some tincture of vice.

— Michel de Montaigne

Amongst all other vices there is none I hate more than cruelty, both by nature and judgment, as the extremest of all vices.

— Michel de Montaigne

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

— Finley Peter Dunne

The gross debaucheries and atrocious cruelties are covered with a resplendent mental veil because of the systematic exposition of the philosophic principles in all…

— Iwan Bloch

As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.

— Albert Einstein

In most old communities there is a common sense even in sensuality. Vice itself gets gradually digested into a system, is amenable to certain…

— Edwin Percy Whipple