Vice Similes. Frank J. Wilstach, comp. 1916. A Dictionary of Similes

Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Vice


Vices, like beasts, are fond of none but those that feed them. —Samuel Butler	1
Vice, like disease, floats in the atmosphere. —William Hazlitt	2
The vices operate like age,—bring on disease before its time, and in the prime of youth, leave the character broken and exhausted. —Junius	3
Vice leaves repentance in the soul like an ulcer in the flesh which is always scratching and lacerating itself. —Michel Eyquem, seigneur de Montaigne	4
Every great vice is like a pike in a pond, that devours virtues and lesser vices. —Sir Thomas Overbury	5
He that is deeply engaged in vice, is like a man laid fast in a bag, who, by a faint and lazy struggling to get out, does but spend his strength to any purpose, and sinks himself the deeper in it: the only way is, by a resolute and vigorous effort to spring out, if possible, at once. —John Tillotson	6