Quotes About Virtue

Woman's virtue is man's greatest invention.

human society," as C. S. Lewis puts it, "inside which minimum decency passes for heroic virtue and utter corruption for pardonable imperfection.

That cannot be safe which is not honourable.

There may be a wrong way to do the right thing, but never a right way to do a wrong thing.

If you want self-esteem." "Do estimable acts" ~ V, from A Piece of Cake: Memoir

If a novel's salient aim is virtue, I want to throw it against the wall.

When the wicked want to bring down the innocent, they aim for a loving heart.

Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.

It was humility, thought Rhoda. That was the key-note of Bel's character. Rhoda had never prized this virtue—she had thought it overrated—but now she realised, that she had been mistaken. Humility was not just an absence of pride, it was not a negative virtue, it was a definite "fruit of the spirit". False humility was horrible of course (vide Uriah Heep) but real humility, growing from within, was beautiful.

Humility was not just an absence of pride, it was not a negative virtue, it was a definite "fruit of the spirit". False humility was horrible of course (vide Uriah Heep) but real humility, growing from within, was beautiful.

To me, integrity means always doing what is right and good, regardless of the immediate consequences. It means being righteous from the very depth of our soul, not only in our actions but, more importantly, in our thoughts and in our hearts.

Shun all vice, especially card playing.

It's obviously a lot harder to try and be a good guy than it is to be a bad guy. The world is a fundamentally evil place, it seems like. So in order to be a good person, you have to fight temptation and vice.

If a ruler of men wants to put an end to vice, he must examine the correspondence between form and name and look to see how what is said differs from what is done.

The gods, as they are beneficent, if they find anyone who is healthy and whole and unscarred by vice, will send him away, surely, after crowning him, not with golden crowns, but with all sorts of blessings.

To all the rest of his Absurdities, (for vice is always unreasonable,) he adds one more, who expects that Vertue from another which he won't practise himself.

He who busies himself with things other than improvement of his own self becomes perplexed in darkness and entangled in ruin. His evil spirits immerse him deep in vices and make his bad actions seem handsome.

We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.

Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.

Although all the good arts serve to draw man's mind away from vices and lead it toward better things, this function can be more fully performed by this art, which also provides extraordinary intellectual pleasure.

Human nature is not of itself vicious.

If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible.

Virtue in a woman is like pepper in the soup. A little makes for a nice seasoning. But overdo it, and no one wants very much of you.

In my entire life, I've never managed to do anything that I've truly been ashamed of.