A Quote by Moliere

I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.

Moliere

Quote Topics

Bores Interesting Prefer Vice Virtue

Quote Author

Moliere
French - Playwright
January 15, 1622 - February 17, 1673

I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.

Moliere

As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.

Albert Einstein

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

Men imagine that they communicate their virtue or vice only by overt actions, and do not see that virtue or vice emit a breath every moment.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If God bores you, tell Him that He bores you, that you prefer the vilest amusements to His presence, that you only feel at your ease when you are far from Him.

Francois Fenelon

We feel something like respect for consistency even in error. We lament the virtue that is debauched into a vice; but the vice that affects a virtue becomes the more detestable.

Thomas Paine

Who was it who said that every virtue contains its corresponding vice? C.S. Lewis? Virginia Woolf? You forget. But it has always worried you that what the virtue of wit contained was the vice of scorn.

Kevin Brockmeier

Of the two, I prefer those who render vice lovable to those who degrade virtue.

Joseph Joubert

The extremes of vice and virtue are alike detestable, and absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is.

Samuel Butler

Taste and elegance, though they are reckoned only among the smaller and secondary morals, yet are of no mean importance in the regulations of life. A moral taste is not of force to turn vice into virtue; but it recommends virtue with something like the blandishments of pleasure, and it infinitely abates the evils of vice.

Edmund Burke

Change a virtue in its circumstances find it becomes a vice; change a vice in its circumstances, and it becomes a virtue. Regard the same quality from two sides; on one it is a fault, on the other a merit. The essential of a man is found concealed far below these moral badges.

Hippolyte Taine

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

Katy Lederer

It takes a vice to check a vice, and virtue is the by-product of a stalemate between opposite vices.

Eric Hoffer

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

William Shakespeare

Every virtue inclines to stupidity, every stupidity to virtue; "stupid to the point of sanctity," they say in Russia, - let us be careful lest out of pure honesty we eventually become saints and bores!

Friedrich Nietzsche

In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa.

Samuel Butler

A Quote by Moliere

Quote Topics

Quote Author

Related Quotes

Related Authors