“ The heart resolves this matter in a trice:Men only feel the smart, but not the vice. ”
- Alexander Pope- Copy
“ The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to plague us. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
“ There is no vice so simple but assumesSome mark of virtue on his outward parts. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
“ We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue. ”
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld- Copy
“ 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- Copy
“ Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners — your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards — who dishonor the vices and bring them into bad repute. ”
- Thornton Wilder- Copy
“ 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- Copy
“ I'll habits gather by unseen degrees, As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas. ”
- John Dryden- Copy
“ The martyrs to vice, far exceed the martyrs to virtue, both in endurance and in number. So blinded are we by our passions, that we suffer more to be damned than to be saved. ”
- Charles Caleb Colton- Copy
“ The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues. ”
- Rene Descartes- Copy
“ Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast; But shall the dignity of vice be lost? ”
- Alexander Pope- Copy
“ When our vices leave us, we flatter ourselves that we are leaving them. ”
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld- Copy
“ It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations. ”
- Walter Bagehot- Copy
“ 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- Copy
“ Do but see his vice;'Tis to his virtues a just equinox,The one as long as the other. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
“ When our vices leave us, we flatter ourselves with the credit of having left them. ”
- La Rochefoucauld- Copy
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