“I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.”
“As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.”
“No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.”
“We ought to be interested in that darkest and most real part of a man in which dwell not the vices that he does not display, but the virtues that he cannot.”
“Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.”
“Patience is a virtue not a vice.”