Quotes About Virtue

Oh, I hate the cheap severity of abstract ethics!

Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is a man's original virtue.

Lean on principles, one day they'll end up giving way.

Men become old, but they never become good.

Thought and language are to the artist instruments of an art. Vice and virtue are the artist's materials for an art. From the point of view of form, the type of all the arts is the art of the musician. From the point of view of feelings, the actor's craft is the type. All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectators, and not life, that art really mirrors.

I don't think now that people can be divided into the good and the bad, as though they were two separate races or creations. What are called good women may have terrible things in them, mad moods of recklessness, assertion, jealousy, sin. Bad women. as they are termed, may have in them sorrow, repentence, pity, sacrifice.

He would never again tempt innocence. He would be good.

Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion. In art, as in politics, there is but one origin for all revolutions, a desire on the part of man for a nobler form of life, for a freer method and opportunity of expression

I believe that you are really a very good husband but that you are thoroughly ashamed of your own virtues. You are an extraordinary fellow. You never say a moral thing and you never do a wrong thing. Your cynicism is simply a pose.

You never say a moral thing, and you never do a wrong thing.

Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you'll never be invited to a party.

I would sooner have fifty unnatural vices than one unnatural virtue. It is unnatural virtue that makes the world, for those who suffer, such a premature Hell.

The true perfection of man lies, not in what man has, but in what man is.

Cuando somos felices siempre somos buenos, pero cuando somos buenos no siempre somos felices

El único error imperdonable en el que incurren todas las personas verdaderamente buenas y que nunca pueden evitar es conversar de forma sincera

Kiedy jeste?my szcz??liwi, zawsze jeste?my dobrzy, ale kiedy jeste?my dobrzy, nie zawsze jeste?my szcz??liwi.

loving for their mere artificiality those renunciations that men have unwisely called virtue, as much as those natural rebellions that wise men still call sin.

Charity creates a multitude of sins.

One is not always happy when one is good; but one is always good when one is happy.

want to be good. I can't bear the idea of my soul being hideous.

Nay! for perchance that poppy-crownèd god Is like the watcher by a sick man's bed Who talks of sleep but gives it not; his rod Hath lost its virtue, and, when all is said, Death is too rude, too obvious a key To solve one single secret in a life's philosophy. And

Only she is chaste whom none has invited

Video meliora proboque, deteriora sequor.

I see and approve of the better, but I follow the worse.