John Dryden Vices Quotations

If thou dost still retain the same ill habits, the same follies, too, still thou art bound to vice, and still a slave.

Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.

The end of satire is the amendment of vices by correction; and he who writes honestly is no more an enemy to the offender than the physician to the patient when he prescribes harsh remedies.

Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.

Fattened in vice, so callous and so gross, he sins and sees not, senseless of his loss.