There is more than a morsel of truth in the saying, "He who hates vice hates mankind."
~W. MacNeile Dixon

Minor vices lead to major ones, but minor virtues stay put.
~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966

We are more inclined to regret our virtues than our vices; but only the very honest will admit this.
~Holbrook Jackson

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

Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners - your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards - who dishonor the vices and bring them into bad repute.
~Thornton Wilder

It has ever been my experience that folks who have no vices, have very few virtues.
~Abraham Lincoln

Loud indignation against vice often stands for virtue in the eyes of bigots.
~J. Petit-Senn

Idleness is the beginning of all vices.
~Proverb

There are two types of people in this world, good and bad. The good sleep better, but the bad seem to enjoy the waking hours much more.
~Woody Allen

The Anglo-Saxon conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't; it just keeps you from enjoying it.
~Salvador de Madariaga

If we escape punishment for our vices, why should we complain if we are not rewarded for our virtues?
~John Churton Collins, Aphorisms in the English Review, 1914

Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals, 1836

When our vices desert us, we flatter ourselves that we are deserting our vices.
~Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
~Bertrand Arthur William Russell, On Education, 1926

It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.
~Walter Bagehot

Our virtues and vices couple with one another, and get children that resemble both their parents.
~George Savile, Marquess de Halifax, Miscellaneous Thoughts and Reflections

Without enthusiasm, virtue functions not at all, and vice only poorly.
~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

The vices of the rich and great are mistaken for error; and those of the poor and lowly, for crimes.
~Lady Marguerite Blessington