Character Quote by William Hazlitt

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— Jean Racine

Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice.

— Horace Walpole

Virtue consists in fleeing vice.

— Horace

One doesn’t have to operate with great malice to do great harm. The absence of empathy and understanding are sufficient. In fact, a man…

— Charles M. Blow

How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!

— Honore de Balzac

Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.

— Juvenal

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

— Charles Caleb Colton

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

— Adam Smith

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

— Dominique Bouhours

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

— Edmund Waller

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

— Charles Caleb Colton