1,046 Quotes About Virtue

Those possest of the greatest Virtues are always least pleas'd with the repetition of them ...

Blushing is the colour of virtue.

Most people are so constituted that they can only be virtuous in a certain routine; an irregular course of life demoralizes them.

I would say that by virtue of transforming politics, [Dalai Lama] is in fact easily underestimated.

Villainy wears many masks; none so dangerous as the mask of virtue.

Virtue is the only and true nobility. [Lat., Nobilitas sola est atque unica virtus.]

Integrity is praised, and starves.

So much greater is our thirst for glory than for virtue.

The highest panegyric, therefore, that private virtue can receive, is the praise of servants.