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Vice: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

Vice gets more in this vicious world Than piety.— BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER — Love's Cure. Act III. Sc. 1.

Vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.— BURKE — Reflections on the Revolution in

France. But all have prices, From crowns to kicks, according to their vices.— BYRON — Don Juan. Canto V. St. 27.

To sanction Vice, and hunt Decorum down.— BYRON — English Bards and Scotch Reviewers. L. 621.

And lash the Vice and Follies of the Age.— SUSANNAH CENTLIVRE — Prologue to The

Man's Bewitched. Ne'er blush'd, unless, in spreading vice's snares, She blunder'd on some virtue unawares,— CHURCHILL — The Rosciad. L. 137.

Vice stings us, even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us, even in our pains.— C. C. COLTON — Lacon. CCXCVI.

We do not despise all those who have vices, but we despise all those who have not a single virtue.— LA ROCHEFOUCAULD — Maxims. No. 195.

Alitur vitium vivitque tegendo. Vice thrives and lives by concealment.— VIRGIL — Georgica. III. 454.