Quotes About Morality

For, when with beauty we can virtue join, We paint the semblance of a form divine.

It is safest to be moderately base - to be flexible in shame, and to be always ready for what is generous, good, and just, when anything is to be gained by virtue.

I'm not saying I'm a paragon of virtue, but it's hard for me not to be honorable.

Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

Virtue alone has majesty in death.

Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.

Neither Left nor Right has a monopoly of virtue when it comes to smearing opponents.

Teach your daughters to walk in virtue.

It is necessary to make virtue fashionable.

Every act of virtue is an ingredient unto reward.

Because impudence is a vice, it does not follow that modesty is a virtue; it is built upon shame, a passion in our nature, and may be either good or bad according to the actions performed from that motive.

Blind submission in women is considered a virtue, while submission to wrong is itself wrong, and resistance to wrong is virtue alike in women as in man.

When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice.

This idea of selfishness as a virtue, as opposed to generosity: That, to me, is unnatural.

Too much virtue can be criminal.

I have pushed virtue to outright brutality.

Every life is march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.

Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.

The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue.

All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.

Nobody should trust their virtue with necessity, the force of which is never known till it is felt, and it is therefore one of the first duties to avoid the temptation of it.

Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice.

Of the unjust rights which in virtue of this ceremony an iniquitous law gives me over the person and property of another, I cannot legally, but I can morally, divest myself.

Virtue herself is her own fairest reward.