Vice and Virtue

Too much of a good thing is just that.

Brian J. Dent, in Vice and Virtue

Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.

Saint Augustine, in Vice and Virtue

Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man.

Joseph Addison, in Vice and Virtue

I will answer anything I can with honor, but not about others.

John Brown, in Vice and Virtue

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Edmund Burke, in Vice and Virtue

In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat.

Robert Byrne, in Vice and Virtue

Don't wait for the last judgment; it takes place every day.

Albert Camus, in Vice and Virtue

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.

George Washington Carver, in Vice and Virtue

Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.

Marva Collins, in Vice and Virtue

Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

Charles Caleb Colton, in Vice and Virtue

We are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.

Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon, 1.247, in Vice and Virtue

A truth that's told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you can invent

William Blake, in Vice and Virtue

He whose face gives no light shall never become a star.

William Blake, in Vice and Virtue

In adultery, there is usually tenderness and self-sacrifice; in murder, courage; in profanation and blasphemy, a certain satanic splendour. Judas elected those offences unvisited by any virtues: abuse of confidence and informing.

Jorge Luis Borges, "Three Versions of Judas", in Vice and Virtue

There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.

James Branch Cabell, in Vice and Virtue

In my day, we didn't have self-esteem, we had self-respect -- and no more of it than we had earned.

Jane Haddam, in Vice and Virtue

Pardo's First Postulate: Anything good in life is either illegal, immoral, or fattening.

Unknown, in Vice and Virtue

People who claim they don't let little things bother them have never slept in a room with a single mosquito.

Unknown, in Vice and Virtue

People who have no faults are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.

Unknown, in Vice and Virtue

Resisting temptation is easier when you think you'll probably get another chance later on.

Unknown, in Vice and Virtue