Ambrosio was yet to learn, that to an heart unacquainted with her, Vice is ever most dangerous when lurking behind the Mask of Virtue.
– Matthew Lewis
Related Quotes:
- Behind every face lies a mask. Behind it lies another onion layer of mask. If you peel the skins, you may cry. – Khang Kijarro Nguyen
- To copy a virtue in another is more copying than it is virtue. Try to learn what that virtue is based upon. – Idries Shah
- The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name. – William Makepeace Thackeray
- Behind every mask there is a face, and behind that a story. – Marty Rubin
- Shred the fake mask of humility into pieces. And put on the mask of arrogance if needed. – Abhijit Naskar
- Unacquainted with grief, I knew not how to appraise my bereavement; I could not rightly estimate the strength of the stroke. – Ambrose Bierce
- There was hardly an eminent writer in Paris who was unacquainted with the inside of the Conciergerie or the Bastille. – Lytton Strachey
- Ignorance is your opponent, fear is your enemy, vice is your adversary, virtue is your friend, and wisdom is your helper. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Virtue will cut your head off, vice will only cut your hair. – Honor de Balzac
- Greed is the seed of corruptionas much as virtue is the seed of justice.Wisdom is the seed of successas much as vice is the seed of destruction. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Self-improvement is generally a removal of a vice rather than an acquisition of a virtue. – Chris Matakas
- Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice. – Lyman Abbott
- Encouraging virtue is better than suppressing vice. – Raheel Farooq
- In order to know virtue, we must acquaint ourselves with vice. Only then can we know the true measure of a man. – Marquis de Sade
- Hypocrisy a homage is true, That vice pays to virtue, Be man – himself so true, That no false does he brew. – Munindra Misra
- Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant’s truce between virtue and vice. – Henry David Thoreau
- Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience. – Adam Smith
- …before the dawn I leave the night behind meand before my heart I let you leave me behind.- from the poem ‘Behind – Munia Khan
- There is a life behind the personality that uses personalities as masks. There are times when life puts off the mask and deep answers unto deep. – Dion Fortune
- Do not hide behind any mask – Lailah Gifty Akita
- The business of obscuring language is a mask behind which stands the much greater business of plunder. – Frantz Fanon
- It’s not often you encounter the real person behind a good-natured mask, the darkest parts of someone. It’s not comfortable when you do. – Veronica Roth
- The hardest thing of all is when pain is hidden behind a mask of calm. – Sergei Lukyanenko
- What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams. – Werner Herzog
- The more I read the Quran, the clearer I see the hidden wickedness lurking in the shadows of my soul. – Moosa Rahat
- What had human beings become? Did war make us evil or just activate an evil already lurking within us? – Ruta Sepetys
- If there is a fundamental challenge within these stories, it is simply to change our lurking suspicion that some lives matter less than other lives. – Gregory J Boyle
- He looked around him wildly, as if the past were lurking here in the shadow of his house, just out of reach of his hand. – F Scott Fitzgerald
- True monsters are not those lurking under the bed, but the ones sleeping in it. – Silje Akselberg Iversen
- Never underestimate the power of good but never ignore evil lurking in the hearts of men.Rose of Life – Sonia Rumzi
- It is difficult to believe in the dreadful but quiet war lurking just below the serene facade of nature. – Charles Darwin
- Has this version of me been lurking there all along, somewhere deep below the surface, biding its time, waiting for its chance to make an appearance? – Cat Clarke
- ..her smile, which was her pretty feature, was never so pretty as when her sprightly phrase had a scratch lurking in it. – Henry James
- And suddenly, there were the shapes of many people lurking out of the woods, light glowing from their hands. – Serena Winter
- addiction is an insidious disease that’s always lurking nearby like a snake ready to strike. – Lou Gramm
- Unlike the puerile loyalty to a conviction, loyalty to a friend is a virtue – perhaps the only virtue, the last remaining one. – Milan Kundera
- Power does not justify sin. Power is not virtue. Virtue is that which lasts inspite of power – Sweety Shinde
- Virtue of prayer, virtue of patience. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- In the common degree of the moral, there is no virtue. Virtue is excellence. – Adam Smith
- virtue does not spring from riches, but riches and all other human blessings, both private and public, from virtue. – Plato