Quotes About Virtue

Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.

Since in the long run deception is likely to be found out, your character had better not only seem good, but be it.

It (the heart) is supposed in popular language, to be the seat sometimes, of courage, sometimes of affection, sometimes of honesty, or baseness.

I courted fame but as a spur to brave and honest deeds; who despises fame will soon renounce the virtues that deserve it.

The view that honesty is something, and even a virtue, belongs, it is true, to those private opinions which are forbidden in this age of public opinions.

Were there no heaven nor hell I should be honest.

Avoid dishonest gain: no price can recompence the pangs of vice.

Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.

A man who preserves his integrity no real, long-lasting harm can ever come.

Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.- Lucullus (Act III, scene 1)

The best of all lost arts is honesty

I hope I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles the character of an "Honest Man."

Honesty is the great essential. It exalts the individual citizenship, and, without honesty, no man deserves the confidence of the people in private pursuit or in public office.

Of all feats of skill the most difficult is that of being honest.

He that resolves to deal with none but honest men must leave off dealing.

Honesty's praised then left to freeze.

Honesty must sometimes be taken in small measure, like a bitter medicine.

Honour is purchas'd by the deeds we do.

Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it.

Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish.

Honor is better than honors.

It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.

It is best to live with honor for just a day than with dishonor for many decades; better a short lived celestial swan than a century-lived crow.

Honor is simply the morality of superior men.