Quotes About Virtue

How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

Is this the noble natureWhom passion could not shake? whose solid virtueThe shot of accident nor dart of chanceCould neither graze nor pierce?

Ambition,The soldier's virtue.

But virtue, as it never will be mov'd,Though lewdness court it in a shape of heaven,So lust, though to a radiant angel link'd,Will sate itself in a celestial bed,And prey on garbage.

Assume a virtue, if you have it not.

The fair, the chaste, and unexpressive she.

He was not born to shame:Upon his brow shame is asham'd to sit.

How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

Saint-seducing gold.

Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.

He lives in fame that died in virtue's cause.

All places that the eye of heaven visitsAre to a wise man ports and happy havens.Teach thy necessity to reason thus;There is no virtue like necessity.Think not the king did banish thee,But thou the king.

Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar;Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel.

No worse a husband than the best of men.

Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny.

There is no vice so simple but assumesSome mark of virtue on his outward parts.

Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.

Wives may be merry, and yet honest too.

Is it a world to hide virtues in?

When he is best, he is a little worse than a man, and when he is worst, he is little better than a beast.

Patience, thou young and rose-lipp'd cherubin.

Are you good men and true?

Now am I, if a man should speak truly, little better than one of the wicked.

And simple truth miscall'd simplicity,And captive good attending captain ill.