Character Quote by Thomas Jefferson

Vices are simply the errors which a man makes in his search after his own happiness. Unlike crimes, they imply no malice toward others,…

— Lysander Spooner

We feel something like respect for consistency even in error. We lament the virtue that is debauched into a vice; but the vice that…

— Thomas Paine

“There is no worse penalty for vice than the fact that it is dissatisfied with itself and all its fellows.”

— Seneca

Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit--or a mask.

— William Hazlitt

Vice is a monster of so frightful mien As to be hated needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her…

— Alexander Pope

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

— William Shakespeare

Vices are simply overworked virtues.

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

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

— Thornton Wilder

Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.

— Ben Jonson

Vice leaves repentance in the soul, like an ulcer in the flesh, which is always scratching and lacerating itself; for reason effaces all other…

— Michel de Montaigne

Vice, like virtue, Grows in small steps, and no true innocence Can ever fall at once to deepest guilt.

— Jean Racine

A vice sanctioned by the general opinion is merely a vice. The evil terminates in itself. A vice condemned by the general opinion produces…

— Thomas B. Macaulay