“There is a war against vice in Lancaster. I am going home to speak for vice.”

“Even if the things are against his faith and religion, it's not to be said: don't speak and shut up your mouth, for thus there won't be clearing of the religion. Vice Versa, in this case we say: speak as you want.”

“Is it against justice or reason to love ourselves? And why is self-love always a vice?”

“I am Chiz Escudero, a Filipino, a son, husband, father, and a Bicolano public servant. With the grace of God and the Blessed Mother, I humbly offer myself to the mission of serving as your vice president…as the vice president of our country.”

“The sight of a drunkard is a better sermon against that vice than the best that was ever preached on that subject.”

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

“Here I am once more in this scene of dissipation and vice, and I begin already to find my morals corrupted.”

“I find in myself as much evil as in anyone, but detesting action — mother of all vices — I am the cause of no one's suffering.”

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

“There has never been superadded to these vices of mine the withering, embalming vice of consistency.”