1,046 Quotes About Virtue

Knowledge can wait for its virtues, but ignorance cannot even wait for its vices.

The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.

Now naturally, like many of us, I have a reluctance to change too much of the old ways. But there is no virtue at all in clinging as some do to tradition merely for its own sake.

The charm of your society, my Sparrow, lies in not knowing what you will say next – though one rapidly learns to expect the worst!

No matter how many times you pierce light, it will live on.

Truth cannot hide from virtue; virtue cannot hide from love; love cannot hide from God; and God cannot hide from truth.

The neglected pioneer of one revolution, the honoured victim of another, brave to the point of folly, and as humane as he was brave, no man in his generation preached republican virtue in better English, nor lived it with a finer disregard of self.{On American founding father and hero, Thomas Paine}

Virtue is a priest, kindness is a bishop, faith is a pope, and love is a religion.

Religion is found in temples, faith is found in priests, virtue is found in saints, and love is found in God.