Virtue Quotes

Pacifism is a virtue indistinguishable from cowardice.

Why should there be some sort of virtue always attributed to a frank admission of vice?

Victory and defeat are but ordinary events in a soldier's career, and why should you give up?

Virtue makes for a cold bed.

Warriors, warriors we call ourselves. We fight for splendid virtue, for high endeavor, for sublime wisdom, therefore we call ourselves warriors.

The smug mask of virtue triumphant could be almost as horrible as the face of wickedness revealed.

A truly virtuous man would come to the aid of the most distant stranger as quickly as to his own friend. If men were perfectly virtuous, they wouldn’t have friends.

May I never, I say, become that abnormal, merciless animal, that deformed monstrosity— a virtuous woman. Anything, Devil, but that.

I am fit to capture a unicorn, and I should not be so questioned.

Some men may be snared by beauty alone, but none can be held except by virtue and compliance.

The ruthlessness of the godly invalidated their claims of virtue.

Areté is a word that means excellence in character and life. It is the accumulation of virtue in one's life.

Courage is chief among virtues. For when any virtue is challenged, it is courage alone that can restore virtue.

What about the virtue of letting others be themselves? Is this not the greatest virtue of all?

It is said a virtuous woman is worth more than rubies. But I believe many men discover the hard way that virtue, like beauty, is often in the eye of the beholder.

If being alive is not a virtue, then there is little virtue in virtue.

You instinctively display the greatest virtue, or rather the chief defect, of us eccentric Parisians- that is, you assume the vices you have not, and conceal the virtues you possess.

Of all fragrances, the sweetest is that of virtue.

Instead of looking for miracles why believe so strong in invisible virtues like dignity of labor.

Virtues are worth more than the material things.

Humility is a virtue and it is a virtue innate in guests.

Virtue has its own reward but no sale at the box office.

Purity is obscurity.

There are few chaste women who are not tired of their trade.

A virtue to be serviceable must like gold be alloyed with some commoner but more durable metal.

If a man has no vices he's in great danger of making vices about his virtues and there's a spectacle.

When men grow virtuous in their old age they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.

If virtue were its own reward it would no longer be a human quality but supernatural.

Let him who believes in immortality enjoy his happiness in silence without giving himself airs about it.

Recommend to your children virtue that alone can make them happy not gold.

There are those who have nothing chaste but their ears and nothing virtuous but their tongues.

Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised.

I prefer an accommodation vice to an obstinate virtue.

Virtue is health vice is sickness.

Virtue often trips and falls on the sharp-edged rock of poverty.

A right doesn't include the material implementation of that right by other men

Tolerance is a virtue that depends upon peace and strength.

Happiness is secured through virtue it is a good attained by man's own will.

Superior virtue must be the fruit of superior intelligence.

We have the universe to roam in in imagination. It is our virtue to be infinitely varied. The worst tyranny is uniformity.

Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue.

Wisdom is knowing what to do next virtue is doing it.

There is no sanctuary of virtue like home.