Vice and Virtue

Too much of a good thing is wonderful.

Mae West, in Vice and Virtue

When I'm good, I'm very good. But when I'm bad I'm better.

Mae West, in Vice and Virtue

When choosing between evils, I always like to take the one I've never tried before.

Mae West, in Vice and Virtue

I can resist everything except temptation.

Oscar Wilde, in Altruism and Cynicism and Vice and Virtue

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

Oscar Wilde, in Success and Failure and Vice and Virtue

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.

Oscar Wilde, in Vice and Virtue

A mountain wears down a horse, anger wears down a man.

Unknown, in Vice and Virtue

All the way to heaven is heaven.

Unknown, in Vice and Virtue

Bacchus: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.

Unknown, in Vice and Virtue

Do infants enjoy infancy as much as adults enjoy adultery?

Unknown, in Vice and Virtue

Everybody should believe in something -- I believe I'll have another drink.

Unknown, in Vice and Virtue

Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins for two weeks.

Unknown, (Sioux Indian prayer), 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

There is no bad in good.

Doug Horton, in Vice and Virtue

Some people are sympathetic; others are just pathetic.

Peter Wastholm, in Vice and Virtue

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

Evelyn Waugh, in Vice and Virtue

It's very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more gut and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

Jessamyn West, 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