“Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied,And vice sometime by action dignified.”

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

“O, mickle is the powerful grace that liesIn herbs, plants, stones, and their true qualities:For nought so vile that on the earth doth liveBut to the earth some special good doth give,Nor aught so good but strain’d from that fair useRevolts from true birth, stumbling on abuse:Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied;And vice sometimes by action dignified.Within the infant rind of this small flowerPoison hath residence and medicine power:For this, being smelt, with that part cheers each part;Being tasted, slays all senses with the heart.Two such opposed kings encamp them stillIn man as well as herbs, grace and rude will;And where the worser is predominant,Full soon the canker death eats up that plant.”

“Patience is a virtue not a vice.”

“Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.”

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