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| As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever be the vice of the most exalted characters |
| Edward Gibbon |
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| Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime |
| Will Durant |
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| He possessed beauty without vanity, strength without insolence; courage without ferocity; and all the virtues of man without his vices |
| Lord Byron |
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| I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores |
| Moliere |
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| If he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, Sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons |
| Samuel Johnson |
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| Our virtues are most often but our vices disguised |
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| Some vices only lay hold of us by means of others, and these, like branches, fall on removal of the trunk. |
| Blaise Pascal |
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| The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues. |
| Elizabeth Taylor |
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| Too much work and too much energy kill a man just as effectively as too much assorted vice or too much drink |
| Rudyard Kipling |
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| Vice has more martyrs than virtue; and it often happens that men suffer more to be lost than to be saved |
| Charles Caleb Colton |
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| Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As to be hated needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, we first endure, then pity, then embrace |
| Alexander Pope |
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| Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps. |
| Quentin Crisp |
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| Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher |
| Seneca |
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| Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have |
| Alexander Pope |
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