Bacon Francis 1561-1626
Essays „Of Adversity'
Prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.
Bolingbroke 1st Viscount 1678-1751
Observations, Anecdotes, and Characters
The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.
Butler Samuel 1835-1902
It is the of vice to keep virtue within reasonable grounds.
Defoe Daniel 1660-1731
Moll Flanders
Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination.
Dunne Finley Peter 1867-1936
Vice goes a long way tow`rd makin` life bearable.
A little vice now an` thin is relished by th` best iv men.
Fielding Henry 1707-1754
Joseph Andrews
Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
Goldwater Barry
(accepting the presidential nomination)
I would remind you that extremism in the defence of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue!
Hubbard Kin 1868-1930
Gossip is vice enjoyed vicariously - the sweet, subtle satisfaction without the risk.
Johnson Samuel 1709-1784
Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.
Johnson Samuel 1709-1784
Music ... the only sensual pleasure without vice.
Jonson Ben c.1573-1637
Every Man out His Humour
My strict hand
Was made to seize on vice, and with a gripe
Squeeze out the humour of such spongy souls,
As lick up every idle vanity.
La Rochefoucauld François Duc de 1613-1680
Maxims
Hypocrisy is a tribute which vice pays to virtue.
Massinger Philip 1583-1640
The Bashful Lover
Ambition, in a private man a vice,
Is in a prince the virtue.
Maugham W. Somerset 1874-1965
Cakes and Ale
Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can pursue; it needs an unceasing vigilance and a rare detachment of spirit. It cannot, like
adultery or gluttony, be practised at spare moments; it is a whole-time job.
Montaigne Michel de 1533-1592
Essays
To make judgements about great and lofty things, a soul of the same stature is needed; otherwise we ascribe to them that vice which is our own.
Montaigne Michel de 1533-1592
When I religiously confess myself to myself, I find that the best virtue I have has in it some tincture of vice.
Moore Mavor
Vice is as much a part of human nature as folly, and pornography may be as necessary to vent vice as satire is to vent folly.
Morley Lord John 1838-1923
He who hates vice hates men.
Pope Alexander 1688-1744
An Essay on Man
Vice is a monster of so frightful mien,
As, to hated, needs but to be seen;
Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face,
We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
Rattigan Terence 1911-1977
In Praise of Love
Do you know what „le vice Anglais" - the English vice - really is? ... It's
our refusal to admit our emotions. We think they demean us, I suppose.
Shakespeare William 1564-1616
The Merchant of Venice
There is no vice so simple but assumes
Some mark of virtue on his outward parts.
Shakespeare William 1564-1616
Twelfth Night
I hate ingratitude more in a man
Than lying, vainness, babbling drunkenness,
Or any taint of vice whose strong corruption
Inhabits our frail blood.
Smith Sydney 1771-1845
What a pity it is that we have no amusements in
England but vice and religion!
Surtees R.S. 1805-1864
The Analysis of the Hunting Field
More people are flattered into virtue than bullied out of vice.
Swinburne Algernon Charles 1837-1909
‚Dolores"
Change in a trice
The lilies and languors of virtue
For the raptures and roses of vice.
Tawney R.H. 1880-1962
The Acquisitive Society
The characteristic virtue of Englishmen is power of sustained practical activity and their characteristic vice a reluctance to test the quality of
that activity by reference to principles.
Twain Mark 1835-1910
There are those who would misteach us that to stick in a rut is consistency - and a virtue, and that to climb out of the rut is inconsistency - and a vice.
Vauvenargues Marquis de 1715-1747
Vice stirs up war; virtue fights.
Walpole Horace 1717-1797
Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice.
Wilder Thornton 1897-1975
Nurse one vice in your bosom. Give it the attention it deserves and let your virtues spring up modestly around it. Then you'll have the miser who's no
liar; and the drunkard who's the benefactor of a whole city.
