Contrary Quote by Roger Chamberlain

He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place.

— Charles Caleb Colton

He cannot "tempt" to virtue as we do to vice. He wants them to learn to walk and must therefore take away His hand;…

— C. S. Lewis

There is no vice so simple but assumes some mark of virtue on his outward parts.

— William Shakespeare

He that is good will infallibly become better, and he that is bad will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue, and time are…

— Charles Caleb Colton

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

— Thornton Wilder

How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!

— Honore de Balzac

What's vice today may be virtue, tomorrow.

— Henry Fielding

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

— Finley Peter Dunne

He who seeks to regulate everything by law is more likely to arouse vices than to reform them. It is best to grant what…

— Baruch Spinoza

“If a wretched man has a vice, it shows itself in the lines of his mouth, the droop of his eyelids, the moulding of…

— Oscar Wilde

Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail.

— Walter Lippmann

Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.

— Juvenal