“Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.”

“I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.”

“My hate is general, I detest all men;Some because they are wicked and do evil,Others because they tolerate the wicked,Refusing them the active vigorous scornWhich vice should stimulate in virtuous minds.”

“Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.”

“Hypocrisy is a tribute that vice pays to virtue.”

“All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.”

“Vice does not lose its character by becoming fashionable.”