Character Quote by William Hazlitt

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

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

— Edmund Waller

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

— Charles Caleb Colton

“Believe me, Eugenie, the words "vice" and "virtue" supply us only with local meanings. There is no action, however bizarre you may picture it,…

— Marquis de Sade

Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.

— George Farquhar

As a rule, all heroism is due to a lack of reflection, and thus it is necessary to maintain a mass of imbeciles. If…

— Ernest Renan

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

— Dominique Bouhours

All is extremely genteel; and there is almost as much repose as in the golden saloons of the contiguous palaces. At any rate, if…

— Isaac D'Israeli

Virtue and vice are not arbitrary things; but there is a natural and eternal reason for goodness and virtue, and against vice and wickedness.

— John Tillotson

“Live by old Ethicks and the classical Rules of Honesty. Put no new names or notions upon Authentick Virtues and Vices. Think not that…

— Sir Thomas Browne

Vice may triumph for a time, crime may flaunt its victories in the face of honest toilers, but in the end the law will…

— Allan Pinkerton

“The notion of a natural propensity for vice is essential to Sadeian psychology; vice is innate, as is virtue, if social conditions are unalterable.…

— Angela Carter