Character Quote by Anonymous

Those lovers scorn whom that love doth possess? Do they call virtue there ungratefulness?

— Philip Sidney

Virtue is like precious odours,-most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.

— Francis Bacon

Virtue is presupposed in friendship.

— Walter Savage Landor

Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.

— Adela Florence Nicolson

Virtue is not the absence of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate thing, like pain or a…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

I have often thought that if a well-grounded affection be not really a part of virtue, it is something extremely akin to it.

— Robert Burns

Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best…

— Francis Bacon

A soul that makes virtue its companion is like an over-flowing well, for it is clean and pellucid, sweet and wholesome, open to all,…

— Epictetus

For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers,…

— Bible

Virtue in women is perhaps a question of temperament.

— Honore de Balzac

Virtue is akin to holiness, an attribute of godliness.

— Ezra Taft Benson

Virtue is nothing but an act of loving that which is to be beloved, and that act is prudence, from whence not to be…

— Francis Quarles