Quotes About Virtue

Be father to virtue, but father-in-law to vice.

Virtue is an angel, but she is a blind one, and must ask of Knowledge to show her the pathway that leads to her goal.

Virtue, as understood by the world, is a constant struggle against the laws of nature.

We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke straps our vice.

Blushing is the color of virtue.

All bow to virtue — and then walk away.

Many consent to be virtuous, only on condition that everybody will give them credit for it.

We are more inclined to regret our virtues than our vices; but only the very honest will admit this.

He who hates vice hates mankind.

The virtue that is not automatic requires more attention than it is worth.

He that has energy enough in his constitution to root out a vice, should go a little farther, and try to plant a virtue in its place; otherwise he will have his labour to renew...

Virtue's the Paint that can make Wrinkles shine.

To many people virtue consists chiefly in repenting faults, not in avoiding them.

But if Virtue was to be rewarded with Wealth it would not be Virtue. If Virtue was to be rewarded with Fame, it would not be Virtue of the sublimest Kind. Who would not rather be Fabricius than Caesar? Who would not rather be Aristides, than even William the 3rd? Who?

Have we no sins of our own to amend that we have all this time for barking and biting at the vices of our neighbours?... Any of us can achieve virtue, if by virtue we merely mean the avoidance of the vices that do not attract us.

The excess of virtue is a vice.

They are the lords and owners of their faces, Others but stewards of their excellence. The summer's flower is to the summer sweet, Though to itself it only live and die, But if that flower with base infection meet, The basest weed outbraves his dignity: For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds; Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds.

When wine enters modesty departs.

It is a question not of hope or despair, but of truth; not of optimism nor of Pessimism, but of wisdom. Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.

A joke is at most a temporary rebellion against virtue, and its aim is not to degrade the human being but to remind him that he is already degraded.

Each good deed strengthens our angel wings.

Remember, the only way to bring about the greater good, is to be the greater good.

Right living is the best way to eliminate suffering

I]t is not by being richer or more powerful that a man becomes better; one is a matter of fortune, the other of virtue. Nor should she deem herself other than venal who weds a rich man rather than a poor, and desires more things in her husband than himself. Assuredly, whomsoever this concupiscence leads into marriage deserves payment rather than affection.