Quotes About Virtue

Even at their absolute best, religious answers remain authoritarian attempts to instill virtue through inspiring intimidation.

Only a sweet and virtuous soul,Like season'd timber, never gives.

Who would do ill ne'er wants occasion.

The rule for social witness is that faithfulness is a higher virtue than effectiveness. Some things ought indeed to be done regardless of whether by human calculations they promise to be effective; and other things ought not to be done, no matter how effective they may promise to be.

There can be no public or private virtue unless the foundation of action is the practice of truth.

No doubt alcohol, tobacco, and so forth, are things that a saint must avoid, but sainthood is a thing that human beings must avoid.

A good act does not wash out the bad, nor a bad act the good. Each should have its own reward.

A ruler needs a good head and a true heart," she famously told the king. "A cock is not essential.

You are an honest and honorable man...Ofttimes I forget that. I have met so few of them in my life.

You are an honest and honorable man, Lord Eddard. Ofttimes I forget that. I have met so few of them in my life." He glanced around the cell. "When I see what honesty and honor have won you, I understand why.

I have the virtue of being still amongst the living. Some would say that is my only virtue.

It is chivalry that makes a true knight, not a sword.

Many good men have been bad kings, Maester Aemon used to say, and some bad men have been good kings.

She had surrendered her virtue at six-and-ten, to a beautiful blond-haired sailor on a trading galley up from Lys. He only knew six words of the Common Tongue, but "fuck" was one of them—the very word she'd hoped to hear.

Would you rather die with honor intact or live with it besmirched?

Si media cebolla está podrida, la cebolla está podrida. Un hombre es bueno o malo...

A good act does not wash out the bad, nor a bad act the good.

Honor," she said. "The point is honor.

A true knight is cleanly as well as godly," the old man always said, insisting that they wash themselves head to heels every time the moon turned, whether they smelled sour or not.

A true knight is cleanly as well as godly.

Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristic in men

It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to.

When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed.

Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.