Character Quote by Walter Scott

“Why should there be some sort of virtue always attributed to a frank admission of vice?”

— Gordon R. Dickson

“habits of virtue and vice are caused by acts”

— Aristotle

Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.

— Juvenal

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

— William Shakespeare

“Hypocrisy is said to be the homage that vice pays to virtue,—decorum is the outward expression of that homage; and if this be so,…

— Charles Robert Maturin

“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

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

— Seneca

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

“Evil is moral at it heart. The selection of vice over virtue; you can pretend not to know, you can rationalize, but you know…

— Gregory Maguire

“Because he hates to praise by name He praises everybody. Vice And virtue must look much the same To one who calls the whole…

— Martial

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

— Will Durant

There are some persons on whom virtue sits almost as ungraciously as vice.

— Dominique Bouhours