Quotes About Virtue

No one can ever enter the celestial kingdom unless he is strictly honest.

He that loseth his honesty hath nothing else to lose.

I want somebody like my mom. My mom is a very charitable woman. She's the sweetest woman in the world. I'm looking for the second sweetest woman in the world. I'm looking for honesty and a big heart.

Honesty is a virtue, but not the only one. If you're in a courtroom you need the whole truth and nothing but the truth; in the living room, sometimes you need anything but. Often.

I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy.

To strictest justice many ills belong, And honesty is often in the wrong.

Honesty is the cornerstone of character.

Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.

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

Honesty is the best policy, says the familiar axiom; but people who are honest on that principle defraud no one but themselves.

Honesty is good sense, politeness, amiableness,--all in one.

That if you be honest and fair, your honesty should admit no discourse to your beauty.

If either wealth or poverty are come by honesty, there is no shame.

What is becoming is honest, and whatever is honest must always be becoming.

Something greater than wealth, grander even than fame — that manhood, character, stand for success, and that nothing else really does.

Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues.

No one has any license to brag because he is honest. That should be natural instinct and, besides, if you are not, they put you in jail. Honesty is merely a form of insurance.

I am a very conscientious golfer. I count every stroke. I learned to play that way. That is the only way I can play. It taught me to be honest. There is no greater virtue than honesty.

What's the news? None, my lord, but that the world's grown honest, Then is doomsday near.

I have tried if I could reach that great resolution . . . to be honest without a thought of Heaven or Hell.

Tolerance! The virtue that makes one bite his tongue so that he can tear out his hair.

I think honesty is the most heroic quality one can aspire to.

fishing teaches a stern morality; inculcates a remorseless honesty.

Dishonesty is a forsaking of permanent for temporary advantages.