Virtue vs. Vice Quotes

When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it, and avarice possesses the whole community.

In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.

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

Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music.

I regard Duryodhana and his party as the baser impulses in man, and Arjuna and his party as the higher impulses.

You can't have virtue without sin. What I'm after is having my characters' virtues defined by how they operate in a very sinful environment. That's how you test people.

Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.

Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

There is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.

Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.