Quotes About Virtue

A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.

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

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

When virtue has slept, she will get up more refreshed.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

I know myself too well to believe in pure virtue.

Ascetic: one who makes a necessity of virtue.

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

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

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

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

One's outlook is a part of his virtue.

Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.

Honor is the reward of virtue.

I believe that Virtue shows quite as well in rags and patches as she does in purple and fine linen.

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

The only reward of virtue is virtue.

Most men admire Virtue, who follow not her lore.

I prefer an accommodation vice to an obstinate virtue.

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

Her voice was ever soft, Gentle and low, an excellent thing in woman.

No good man ever became suddenly rich.

No man ever became very wicked all at once.

The world loves a spice of wickedness.