Virtue Quotes

• "It is easier to be virtuous than it is to appear so, and it pays better."
  By: Henry Wheeler Shaw (used pseudonyms Josh Billings and Uncle Esek)
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• "It is a great deal easier for a man to find a pedigree to fit his virtues than virtues to fit his pedigree."
  By: Henry Wheeler Shaw (used pseudonyms Josh Billings and Uncle Esek)
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• "What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?"
  By: George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman
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• "Anything that's mended is but patched; virtue that transgresses is but patched with sin, and sin that amends is but patched with virtue."
  By: William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, or, What You Will (Clown at I, v)
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• "Virtue is beauty."
  By: William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
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• "Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied, And vice sometime 's by action dignified."
  By: William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet (Friar Laurence at II, iii)
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• "I hold it ever Virtue and cunning were endowments greater Than nobleness and riches. Careless heirs May the two latter darken and expend; But immortality attends the former, Making a man a god."
  By: William Shakespeare, Pericles Prince of Tyre (Cerimon at III, ii)
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• "Therefore it is most expedient for the wise, if Don Worm (his conscience) find no impediment to the contrary, to be the trumpet of his own virtues, as I am to myself."
  By: William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing (Benedick at V, ii)
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• "Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful."
  By: William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure (Vincentio, the Duke at III, i)
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• "Besides, this Duncan Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been So clear in his great office, that his virtues Will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued against The deep damnation of his taking off; And pity, like a naked new-born babe Striding the blast, or heaven's cherubin horsed Upon the sightless couriers of the air, Shall blow the horrid deed in every eye That tears shall drown the wind."
  By: William Shakespeare, Macbeth (Macbeth at I, vii)
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• "Virtue is choked with foul ambition And charity chased hence by rancor's hand; Foul subornation is predominant And equity exiled your highness' land."
  By: William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth, Part II (Gloucester at III, i)
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• "According to his virtue let us use him, With all respect and rites of burial."
  By: William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar (Octavius at V, v)
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• "My heart laments that virtue cannot live Out of the teeth of emulation."
  By: William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar (Artemidorus at II, iii)
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• "Forgive me this is my virtue. For in the fatness of these pursy times Virtue itself of vice must pardon beg, Yea, curb and woo for leave to do him good."
  By: William Shakespeare, Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Hamlet at III, iv)
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• "Assume a virtue, if you have it not."
  By: William Shakespeare, Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Hamlet at III, iv)
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• "For anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first and now. was and is, to hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature, to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure."
  By: William Shakespeare, Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Hamlet at III, ii)
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