Tempted Quote by Rebecca West

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

A vice is merely a pleasure to which somebody has objected.

— Robin Skelton

Ignorance of true pleasure more frequently than temptation to that which is false, leads to vice.

— Ann Radcliffe

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 common people do not judge of vice or virtue by morality or immorality, so much as by the stamp that is set upon…

— Roger L'Estrange

A vice is a failure of desire

— Gerald Stanley Lee

Temptations make one very censorious. If you are virtuous you condemn the wicked and if you are wicked, you condemn the virtuous.

— Elizabeth Bibesco

Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.

— Adam Smith

Vices are usually pleasurable, at least for the time being, and often do not disclose themselves as vices, by their effects, until after they…

— Lysander Spooner

Nothing can be more real, or concern us more, than our own sentiments of pleasure and uneasiness; and if these be favourable to virtue…

— David Hume

Most vices may be committed very genteelly: a man may debauch his friend's wife genteelly: he may cheat at cards genteelly

— Samuel Johnson

The fear of punishment may be necessary to the suppression of vice; but it also suspends the finer motives of virtue.

— William Hazlitt