Quotes About Virtue

So will I turn her virtue into pitch, And out of her own goodness make the net That shall enmesh them all.

Assume a virtue, if you have it not. That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat, Of habits devil, is angel yet in this, That to the use of actions fair and good He likewise gives a frock or livery That aptly is put on. Refrain tonight, And that shall lend a kind of easiness To the next abstinence; the next more easy; For use almost can change the stamp of nature.

They say best men are molded out of faults, And, for the most, become much more the better For being a little bad

So may the outward shows be least themselves: The world is still deceived with ornament. In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt, But, being seasoned with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil? In religion, What damned error, but some sober brow Will bless it and approve it with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament? There is no vice so simple but assumes Some mark of virtue on his outward parts.

Well, heaven forgive him! and forgive us all! Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall: Some run from brakes of ice, and answer none: And some condemned for a fault alone.

Virtue? A fig! 'Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus.

Mine honor is my life; both grow in one. Take honor from me, and my life is done.

Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?

Virtue and genuine graces in themselves speak what no words can utter.

O, while you live, tell truth, and shame the Devil!

Could beauty, my lord, have better commerce than with honesty?

Let it be virtuous to be obstinate.

Through tatter'd clothes small vices do appear; Robes and furr'd gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold, And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks; Arm it in rags, a pygmy's straw does pierce it. None does offend, none- I say none! I'll able 'em.

The rarer action is in virtue than in vengeance.

Dost think because thou art virtuous there shall be no more cakes and ale? (Twelfth Night)

To do a great right do a little wrong, And curb this cruel devil of his will.

A good leg will fall, a straight back will stoop, a black beard will turn white, a curled pate will grow bald, a fair face will wither, a full eye will wax hollow. But a good heart...is the sun and moon...for it shines bright and never changes, but keeps its course truly.

I am in this earthly world, where to do harm is often laudable, to do good sometime accounted dangerous folly.

I will find you twenty lascivious turtles ere one chaste man.

Love is my sin, and thy dear virtue hate, Hate of my sin, grounded on sinful loving: O, but with mine compare thou thine own state, And thou shalt find it merits not reproving

Tis one thing to be tempted, Escalus, Another thing to fall. - Angelo, Act 2 Scene 1

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

An overflow of good converts to bad.

I have done no harm. But I remember now I am in this earthly world, where to do harm is often laudable, to do good sometime accounted dangerous folly.