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Vice
AND
VIRTUE

 

The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they’re going to have some pretty annoying virtues.

Elizabeth Taylor

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THE GREATEST ART OF A POLITICIAN IS TO RENDER VICE SERVICEABLE TO THE CAUSE OF VIRTUE.

Henry Bolingbroke

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I was horrified to find the other week that my second son is taking drugs. My very best ones too.

Bob Monkhouse

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FOR GOD’S SAKE, IF YOU SIN, TAKE PLEASURE IN IT, AND DO IT FOR THE PLEASURE.

Gerald Gould

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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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GOOD TASTE IS THE WORST VICE EVER INVENTED.

Edith Sitwell

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Flippancy, the most hopeless form of intellectual vice.

George Gissing

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IF THERE WERE NO BAD PEOPLE, THERE WOULD BE NO GOOD LAWYERS.

Charles Dickens

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I always admired virtue — but I could never imitate it.

King Charles II

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IF YOU PRETEND TO BE GOOD, THE WORLD TAKES YOU VERY SERIOUSLY. IF YOU PRETEND TO BE BAD, IT DOESN’T. SUCH IS THE ASTOUNDING STUPIDITY OF OPTIMISM.

Oscar Wilde

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All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.

Iris Murdoch

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GOOD AND BAD MEN ARE EACH LESS SO THAN THEY SEEM.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.

Adam Smith

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IF YOU RESOLVE TO GIVE UP SMOKING, DRINKING AND LOVING, YOU DON’T ACTUALLY LIVE LONGER — IT JUST SEEMS LONGER.

Clement Freud

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Oh, blameless people are always the most exasperating!

George Eliot

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I HAVE OFTEN WISHED I HAD TIME TO CULTIVATE MODESTY. BUT I AM TOO BUSY THINKING ABOUT MYSELF.

Edith Sitwell

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As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.

Richard Francis Burton

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ON THE WHOLE, HUMAN BEINGS WANT TO BE GOOD, BUT NOT TOO GOOD, AND NOT QUITE ALL THE TIME.

George Orwell

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What after all is a halo? It’s only one more thing to keep clean.

ChristopherFry

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VICES AND VIRTUES ARE OF A STRANGE NATURE, FOR THE MORE WE HAVE, THE FEWER WE THINK WE HAVE.

Alexander Pope

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Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.

Benjamin Disraeli

 

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Goodness is

BEAUTY IN ITS

BEST ESTATE.

Christopher Marlowe

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IN ENGLAND THE ONLY HOMAGE WHICH THEY PAY TO VIRTUE — IS HYPOCRISY.

Lord Byron

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Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.

George Eliot

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THE MOST INFLUENTIAL OF ALL THE VIRTUES ARE THOSE WHICH ARE THE MOST IN REQUEST FOR DAILY USE. THEY WEAR THE BEST, AND LAST THE LONGEST.

Samuel Smiles