Character Quote by Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

When we envy another, we make their virtue our vice.

— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

Our virtues are most often but our vices disguised

— François De La Rochefoucauld

Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised.

— Juvenal

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

— Alexander Pope

Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Our vices are the excesses of our virtues.

— Pleasant Rowland

Our virtues make us; but virtues are not enough, we must deploy our vices at times

— Hilary Mantel

Our vices always lie in the direction of our virtues, and in their best estate are but plausible imitations of the latter.

— Henry David Thoreau

Our virtues, as well as our vices, are often scourges for our own backs.

— Mary Elizabeth Braddon

The vices of which we are full we carefully hide from others, and we flatter ourselves with the notion that they are small and…

— John Calvin

We are intensely loyal to our parents. In spite of the pain we experienced at our parent's hands, we cling tenaciously to their views…

— Augustus Napier

Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children. All profound…

— Luc de Clapiers