Top 1200 Vice And Virtue Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.

You cannot lift others to virtue on the one hand if you are entertaining vice on the other.

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

Extremism in defense of Liberty is no vice and moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

I never was so rapid in my virtue but my vice kept up with me.

Virtue hath no tongue to check vice's pride.

The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.

The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.

Freedom and slavery, the one is the name of virtue, and the other of vice, and both are acts of the will.

For in the fatness of these pursy times Virtue itself of vice must pardon beg.

Every life is march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.

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

Any virtue systematically applied becomes a vice. Morality is attention, not system.

Good-faith re-examination of a position you've held in the past should be seen as a virtue, not a vice.

A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice - but as yet unstained.

Without enthusiasm, virtue functions not at all, and vice only poorly.

Loud indignation against vice often stands for virtue in the eyes of bigots.

Every virtue is a mean between two extremes, each of which is a vice.

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

Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice.

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

Extremism is the pursuit of the presidency is an unpardonable vice. Moderation in the affairs of the nation is the highest virtue.

Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion in vice.

Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit--or a mask.

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

Chastity is a virtue with some, but with many it is almost a vice.

Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.

The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.

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

It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.

I believe that I am God's exact intention. It's that balance of virtue and vice.

Friendship is given us by nature, not to favor vice, but to aid virtue.

A man is fortunate if he encounters living examples of vice, as well as of virtue, to inspire him.

Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.

Tolerance is a virtue, but, like all virtues, when exaggerated it transforms itself into a vice.

The drama is the looking-glass in which we see the hideousness of vice and the beauties of virtue.

More people are flattered into virtue than bullied out of vice.

Ponder the fact that God has made you a gardener, to root out vice and plant virtue.

It is convention and arbitrary rewards which make all the merit and demerit of what we call vice and virtue.

Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.

Sometimes virtue starves while vice is fed.

Ambition, in a private man is a vice, is in a prince the virtue.

Do not grieve over the temptations you suffer. When the Lord intends to bestow a particular virtue on us, He often permits us first to be tempted by the opposite vice. Therefore, look upon every temptation as an invitation to grow in a particular virtue and a promise by God that you will be successful, if only you stand fast.

Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast; But shall the dignity of vice be lost?

Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.

God will certainly reward virtue and punish vice, either here or hereafter.

Vice is a dreary business. And virtue is not a lot of fun, either.

Self-love, as it happens to be well or ill conducted, constitutes virtue and vice.

On the whole, men are more good than bad; that, however, isn't the real point. But they are more or less ignorant, and it is this that we call vice or virtue; the most incorrigible vice being that of an ignorance that fancies it knows everything and therefore claims for itself the right to kill. The soul of the murderer is blind; and there can be no true goodness nor true love without the utmost clear-sightedness.

If virtue accompany it, it is the heart's paradise; if vice associate it, it is the soul's purgatory.

In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.

We have only one story. All novels, all poetry, are built on the neverending contest in ourselves of good and evil. And it occurs to me that evil must constantly respawn, while good, while virtue, is immortal. Vice has always a new fresh young face, while virtue is venerable as nothing else in the world is.

Weakness is more opposed to virtue than is vice.

Hypocrisy is the homage that vice and wrong pay to virtue and justice .

No race has a monopoly on vice or virtue, and the worth of an individual is not related to the color of his skin.

What makes Existence really nice Is Virtue--with a dash of Vice.

There is no vice so simple but assumes some mark of virtue on his outward parts.