Character Quote by Samuel Smiles

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

A man is fortunate if he encounters living examples of vice, as well as of virtue, to inspire him.

— Brendan Behan

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

— Honore de Balzac

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

— Finley Peter Dunne

My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.

— Abraham Lincoln

Vice has more martyrs than virtue; and it often happens that men suffer more to be lost than to be saved.

— Charles Caleb Colton

“In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men want to be good and want to be loved. Indeed, most…

— John Steinbeck

“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

Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied, And vice sometime by action dignified.

— William Shakespeare

In sum, all actions and habits are to be esteemed good or evil by their causes and usefulness in reference to the commonwealth, and…

— Thomas Hobbes

Some people with great virtues are disagreeable, while others with great vices are delightful.

— Duc De La Rochefoucals

Virtue steals, like a guilty thing, into the secret haunts of vice and infamy, clings to their devoted victim, and will not be driven…

— William Hazlitt