Attributed to Einstein in Albert Einstein: A Documentary Biography by Carl Seeling (1956), p. 114 http://books.google.com/books?id=VCbPAAAAMAAJ&q=%22silent+vice%22#search_anchor. Einstein is said to have made this remark "when someone in his company grew angry about a mutual acquaintance's moral decline".
Attributed in posthumous publications
as quoted in The Bourgeois: Catholicism vs. Capitalism in Eighteenth-Century France (1927), p. 137
“I prefer an accommodating vice
To an obstinate virtue.”
J'aime mieux un vice commode,
Qu'une fatigante vertu.
Act I, sc. iv
Amphitryon (1666)
“Preference of vice to virtue, a manifest wrong judgment.”
Book II, Ch. 21, sec. 70
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689)
“Virtue with poverty didst thou prefer
To the possession of great wealth with vice.”
Canto XX, lines 26–27 (tr. Longfellow).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Purgatorio
“We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.”
As quoted in Thesaurus of Epigrams: A New Classified Collection of Witty Remarks, Bon Mots and Toasts (1942) by Edmund Fuller
“As far as I'm concerned, I'm a middle-of-the-road moderate and the rest of you are crazy.”
Source: If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans
“Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.”
“As far as I'm concerned, it's the ony name I've ever had.”
On her lifelong use of the name "Happy", in "The Happy Rhodes Interview" in Homeground #48 (Summer 1993) http://web.archive.org/web/20091023165015/http://geocities.com/SoHo/Studios/3450/homeground.html
Context: The first time my brothers saw me, when I was a day or two old and still in the hospital, my brother Mark could not pronounce the name "Kimberley," and I was an especially happy baby, so he decided it would be easier to call me "Happy." From that moment on, my family members never used the name Kimberley. I was forced, however, to use my given name while attending school. As soon as I turned sixteen, my name was legally changed to Happy Tyler Rhodes. As far as I'm concerned, it's the ony name I've ever had. When people ask me if it's my real name, I always say "yes."
Vice and Virtue, ii
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part II - Elementary Morality
“The virtues of society are the vices of the saints.”
Circles
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
