Chapter VICAR to VIRTUE of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

VICAR to VIRTUE

VICAR.—Besides, she told the village-tale
Who came to drink their home-brew’d ale;
How that the laughter- loving vicar
Would sometimes walk to taste their liquor.

Geo. Combe.—Dr. Syntax, Tour to the Lakes, Chap. V.

VICE.—Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied;
And vice sometime’s by action dignified.

Shakespeare.—Romeo and Juliet, Act II. Scene 3. (The Friar.)

To sanction vice, and hunt decorum down.

Byron.—English Bards.

Vice is a monster of so frightful mien,
As, to be hated, needs but to be seen:
Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face,
We first endure, then pity, then embrace.

Pope.—Essay on Man, Epi. II. Line 217.

I can gild vice,
And praise it into alchymy, till it go
For perfect gold.

Randolph.—The Muses’ Looking-glass, Act IV. Scene 5.

The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices
Make instruments to plague us.

Shakespeare.—King Lear, Act V. Scene 3. (Edgar to Edmund.)

Through tatter’d clothes small vices do appear;
Robes and furr’d gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold,
And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks;
Arm it in rags, a pigmy’s straw doth pierce it.

Shakespeare.—King Lear, Act IV. Scene 6. (Lear to Gloster.)

Children in their rudiments to vices,
Old men to shew examples.

Fletcher.—Thierry and Theodoret, Act I. Scene 1.

Vice gets more in this vicious world than piety.

Fletcher.—Love’s Cure, Act III. Scene 1.

VICE.—Where th’ extreme of vice, was ne’er agreed.

Pope.—On Man, Epi. II. Line 221.

VICTIMS.—Alas! regardless of their doom,
The little victims play;
No sense have they of ills to come,
Nor care beyond to-day.

Gray.—Prospect of Eton College, Stanza VI.

VICTORY.—Thus far our fortune keeps an upward course,
And we are grac’d with wreaths of victory.

Shakespeare.—King Henry VI. Part III. Act V. Scene 3. (King Edward near Barnet.)

VILLAINY.—A very excellent piece of villainy.

Shakespeare.—Titus Andron. Act II. Scene 3. (Aaron in the Forest.)

Why, here’s a villain,
Able to corrupt a thousand by example.