Quotes About Behavior

Hypocrisy is not generally a social sin, but a virtue.

Many people think that virtue consists of severity towards others.

Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.

The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.

More people are flattered into virtue than bullied out of vice.

We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.

Women's virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a tenderness for their reputation.

Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice.

Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.

It is necessary to make virtue fashionable.

The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue.

Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.

Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.

The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.

The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.

Nature, who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium, has sometimes need of vices and sometimes of virtues, inspires now this impulse, now that one, in accordance with what she requires.

Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect.

Modesty is not one of my virtues.

When you rely on incentives, you undermine virtues. Then when you discover that you actually need people who want to do the right thing, those people don't exist because you've crushed anyone's desire to do the right thing with all these incentives.

It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster.

I was brought up to do my duty. Not to be vain, not to shout from the rooftops about my virtues - to be modest and well-behaved. I'm totally wrong for show business.

Be virtuous and you will be vicious.

Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind.