Virtue Quotes

"What men call good fellowship is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter which lie close together to keep each other warm."
-Henry David Thoreau

"All virtue is summed up in dealing justly."
-Aristotle

"Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious."
-Oscar Wilde

"Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder."
-George Washington

"I have not seen a person who loved virtue, or one who hated what was not virtuous. He who loved virtue would esteem nothing above it."
-Confucius

"Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! Virtue is at hand."
-Confucius

"We admire virtue in a woman as long as it doesn't get in our way."
-Sacha Guitry

"Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues."
-Joseph Hall

"The child learns more of the virtues needed in modern life-of fairness, of justice, of comradeship, of collective interest and action-in a common school than can be taught in the most perfect family circle."
-Charlotte Perkins Gilman

"Virtue is a beautiful thing in woman when they don't go about with it like a child with a drum making all sorts of noise with it."
-Douglas Jerrold

"Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience."
-Adam M. Smith

"A state can no more give up part of her sovereignty than a lady can give up part of her virtue."
-John Randolph

"Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue."
-St. Francis De Sales

"If you are truly persevering in virtue, what is the place of a haughty attitude? The cow which has no milk will not be purchased, even though equipped with a pleasant-sounding bell."
-Siddha Nagarjuna

"Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself."
-Sir John Vanbrugh

"Virtue is reason which has become energy."
-Friedrich Von Schlegel

"I always admired virtue - but I could never imitate it."
-Charles Ii

"Respect for self is the beginning of cultivating virtue in men and women."
-Gordon B. Hinckley

"Do unto others 20% better than you would expect them to do unto you, to correct for subjective error."
-Dr. Linus Pauling

"Man is most happy, when his own actions are arguments and examples of his virtue."
-John Webster

"Persevere in virtue and diligence."
-Titus Maccius Plautus

"Virtue, like a dowerless beauty, has more admirers than followers."
-Marguerite Gardiner

"It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge."
-Voltaire

"It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue."
-Voltaire

"It is amusing that a virtue is made of the vice of chastity; and it's a pretty odd sort of chastity at that, which leads men straight into the sin of Onan, and girls to the waning of their color."
-Voltaire

"Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference."
-Voltaire

"The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Virtue has never been as respectable as money."
-Mark Twain