Quotes About Virtue
The excess of virtue is a vice. ~ Greek Proverb
Unless I accept my faults I will most certainly doubt my virtues. ~ Hugh Prather
Sin is commitable in thought, word or deed; so is virtue. ~ Martin H. Fischer
Virtue is praised but hated. People run away from it, for it is ice cold and in this world you must keep your feet warm. ~ Denis Diderot
Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so. ~ Aristotle
Virtue has its own reward but no sale at the box office. ~ Mae West
Humility is a virtue, and it is a virtue innate in guests. ~ Max Beerbohm
The virtue of adversity is fortitude, which in mortals is the heroical virtue. ~ Francis Bacon
Fear could never make a virtue. ~ Voltaire
A thankful heart is the parent of all virtues. ~ Cicero
Virtue does not come from wealth, but. . . wealth, and every other good thing which men have. . . comes from virtue. ~ Socrates
Respect for self is the beginning of cultivating virtue in men and women. ~ Gordon B. Hinckley
Live virtuously, and you cannot die too soon, or live too long. ~ Lady R. Russell
He is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy whereas the man of no virtue or ability is his own worst enemy and is afraid of solitude. ~ Aristotle
Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise. ~ Maya Angelou
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy. ~ Voltaire
A man hasn't got a corner on virtue just because his shoes are shined. ~ Anne Petry
The Saints are the Sinners who keep on trying. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson
Virtue, like a dowerless beauty, has more admirers than followers. ~ Lady Marguerite Blessington
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder. ~ George Washington
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. ~ Abraham Lincoln
Virtue is insufficient temptation. ~ George Bernard Shaw
Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire. ~ Laurence Hope
Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Those who set their minds on virtue will do no evil. ~ Chinese proverb
He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire. ~ Winston Churchill
If vanity does not overthrow all our virtues, at least she makes them totter. ~ François de la Rochefoucauld
Courage, the footstool of Virtues, upon which they stand. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson
Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own. ~ George Bernard Shaw
All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. ~ Aristotle
I know myself to well to believe in pure virtue. ~ Albert Camus
Health, learning and virtue will ensure your happiness; they will give you a quiet conscience, private esteem and public honour. ~ Thomas Jefferson
The extremes of vice and virtue are alike detestable; absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is. ~ Samuel Butler
There is nothing meritorious but virtue and friendship. ~ Alexander Pope
Who hath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue. ~ David Mallett
Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. ~ Benjamin Franklin
If virtue were its own reward, it would no longer be a human quality, but supernatural. ~ Vauvenargues
Silence is the virtue of fools. ~ Francis Bacon
Virtue consists in avoiding scandal and venereal disease. ~ Robert Cecil
One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk. ~ Charles Baudelaire
We are all of us more or less echoes, repeating involuntarily the virtues, the defects, the movements, and the characters of those among whom we live. ~ Joseph Joubert
We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke strops our vice. ~ Henry David Thoreau
The imperfections of a man, his frailties, his faults, are just as important as his virtues. You can't separate them. They're wedded. ~ Henry Miller