Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bergen Evans

The mere abhorrence of vice is not a virtue at all.

Antoine Rivarol

There is even the dignity of vice.

Petrarch

Virtue is health, vice is sickness.

Charles Caleb Colton

The moral cement of all society is virtue; it unites and preserves, while vice separates and destroys.

David Hume

The end of all moral speculations is to teach us our duty; and, by proper representations of the deformity of vice and beauty of virtue, beget correspondent habits, and engage us to avoid the one, and embrace the other.

William Shakespeare

For in the fatness of these pursy times Virtue itself of vice must pardon beg.

Juvenal

Vice deceives us when dressed in the garb of virtue.

Juvenal

The love of popularity holds you in a vice.

Benjamin Franklin

Let thy vices die before thee.

Bill Bryson

Cheapness is a great virtue.

William Shakespeare

To be slow in words is a woman's only virtue.

Alan Chadwick

Patience is not a virtue!

David Brooks

There is a virtue in shamelessness.

Baroness Orczy

Virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when it is crushed.

William Shakespeare

If our virtues did not go forth of us, it were all alike as if we had them not.

William Shakespeare

Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.

Bertolt Brecht

Whenever there are great virtues, it's a sure sign something's wrong.

Benjamin Netanyahu

The Romans used to say that courage is not the only virtue, but it's the only one that makes the other virtues possible.

Lois Perrin

From the outside, it looks fine. It's strikingly gorgeous. But that's what is deceiving about it.

Dustin Lanz

He was our go-to guy. He was the main focus and with someone so dominant, we had to get it to him. He went by guys who were slower, and he was pretty much a power guy. He's just super-athletic - it's deceiving how quick he is.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is best, if possible, to deceive no one; for he that ... begins by deceiving others, will end ... by deceiving himself.

Aesop

Appearances are deceiving.

Agatha Christie

I did not deceive you, mon ami. At most, I permitted you to deceive yourself.

Ned Yost

Looks are deceiving at times. Sometimes, they're not.

Bible Bible

Now the Spirit expressly says that in latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons

Bram Stoker

And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere 'modernity' cannot kill.

Jim Nantz

That's going to be a deceiving final -- a 25-point swing over the final 11 minutes. The Great Danes were great, indeed, for about 30 minutes.