Abolish Quote by Thomas Browne

Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.

— Will Durant

The virtue of some people consists wholly in condemning the vices in others.

— Anonymous

The moral cement of all society is virtue; it unites and preserves, while vice separates and destroys.

— Charles Caleb Colton

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

I think it is extremely interesting to think that, in some cases, vice might be, finally, more redemptive than virtue.

— Katy Lederer

When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice.

— Barbara Amiel

Vice stirs up war, virtue fights.

— Luc de Clapiers

“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

We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Vices are simply overworked virtues.

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

“Vices have to masquerade as virtues — lust as love, thinly veiled sadism as military discipline, envy as righteous indignation, domestic tyranny as parental concern.”

— Cornelius Plantinga Jr

What's vice today may be virtue, tomorrow.

— Henry Fielding