Vice, in its true light, is so deformed, that it shocks us at first sight; and would hardly ever seduce us, if it did not at first wear the mask of some virtue.
Lord Chesterfield

Vice: Whatever was passion in the contemplation of man, being brought forth by his will into action.
James Harrington

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.
George Bernard Shaw

Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
Victor Hugo

Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice.
Rutherford B. Hayes

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

Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice.
Horace Walpole

We often don't think of them, we think of the great wars and the great battles, but what about losing a son or a daughter, or a girl losing her husband or vice versa? I think of the people who never got the chance to have the opportunities I had.
Tony Curtis

We, Norton I, do hereby decree that the offices of President, Vice President, and Speaker of the House of Representatives are, from and after this date, abolished.
Joshua A. Norton

Were there no desire there would be no virtue, and because one man desires what another does not, who shall say whether the child of his desire be Vice or Virtue?
Edgar Rice Burroghs

What a pity it is that we have no amusements in England but vice and religion!
Sydney Smith

What has the women's movement learned from Geraldine Ferraro's candidacy for vice president? Never get married.
Gloria Steinem

What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends.
Ambrose Bierce

What's vice today may be virtue, tomorrow.
Henry Fielding

When I talked to him on the phone yesterday. I called him George rather than Mr. Vice President. But, in public, it's Mr. Vice President, because that is who he is.
Dan Quayle

When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa.
Honore de Balzac

When Roosevelt came along, I approved of his program, generally. I figured an economic system should work for people, not vice versa.
Sargent Shriver

When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice.
Barbara Amiel

Where the state begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa.
Mikhail Bakunin