Quotes about Virtue
Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.
— George Bernard Shaw
You came clothed with the virtue of humility; and because God blessed your enterprises accordingly, you have stained yourself with the sin of pride.
— George Bernard Shaw
Self-denial is not a virtue: it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.
— George Bernard Shaw
That is a rare and blessed lot which some greatest men have not attained, to know ourselves guiltless before a condemning crowd -- to be sure that what we are denounced for is solely the good in us.
— George Eliot
A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.
— Phillips Brooks
Thus you are just not because you give what is owed, but because you do what is appropriate to you as the highest good.
— Anselm of Canterbury
Patience is the companion of wisdom.
— St. Augustine
It was pride that changed angels into devils it is humility that makes men as angels.
— St. Augustine
Give me chastity and continence, but not just now.
— St. Augustine
For what is that which we call evil but the absence of good?
— St. Augustine
Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.
— St. Augustine
We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.
— St. Augustine