The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food.
Cyril Connolly

There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.
William Makepeace Thackeray

There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
Oliver Goldsmith

There is a ceaseless war against drunkenness and cruelty and vice.
Anthony Blunt

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

There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true.
Francois Fenelon

This is the essential evil of vice, that it debases man.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin

This is the great vice of academicism, that it is concerned with ideas rather than with thinking.
Lionel Trilling

Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.
Hosea Ballou

Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
Marcus Fabius Quintilian

Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.
Quintilian

To all the rest of his Absurdities, (for vice is always unreasonable,) he adds one more, who expects that Vertue from another which he won't practise himself.
Mary Astell

To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.
Ouida

Under the leadership of President Bush and Vice President Cheney, the United States has given up the moral high ground that we used to occupy as an international leader.
Marty Meehan

Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination.
Daniel Defoe

Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it.
Finley Peter Dunne

Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps.
Quentin Crisp

Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
Ben Jonson

Vice president - it has such a nice ring to it!
Geraldine Ferraro

Vice stirs up war, virtue fights.
Marquis De Vauvenargues