1,046 Quotes About Virtue

It is politics to please and hoodwink thoseWho flatter but despise us.

Men, perhaps, might nourish both heart and mind, but for a woman there could be no such luxury... How readily the rules of female behavior--gentleness, acquiescence, ever-mindfulness--turn to shackles.So, she thought, there must be declared a new kind of virtue: one that made the throwing off of such rules, and even such deceit as this required, praiseworthy.

He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire."[On British Labour politician Stafford Cripps.]

Hypocrisy is a tribute that vice pays to virtue.

Diplomacy and virtue do not make easy companions.

To be proud of virtue, is to poison yourself with the Antidote.

Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners - your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards - who dishonor the vices and bring them into bad repute.

The problem with a lot of people is that what they think is a virtue is actually a vice in disguise. It's much easier to convince yourself that you're reasonable and civilised, than soft and weak, isn't it?

Ambrosio was yet to learn, that to an heart unacquainted with her, Vice is ever most dangerous when lurking behind the Mask of Virtue.