Extravagant Quote by William Edward Hartpole Lecky

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

— Dominique Bouhours

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

— Charles Caleb Colton

His vices were the vices of his time and culture, but his virtues transcended the milieu of his life.

— Orson Scott Card

But virtue too, as well as vice, is clad in flesh and blood.

— Edmund Waller

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

— Katy Lederer

There is neither vice nor virtue, there are only circumstances.

— Honore de Balzac

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

— Barbara Amiel

Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.

— Adam Smith

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

— Brendan Behan

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

— Will Durant

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

— William Hazlitt

Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

— Charles Dickens