Character Quote by Charles Dickens

“On his death even The Times remarked that, ‘never was an individual less regretted by his fellow creatures than this deceased king’.”

— Simon Jenkins

“Virtue is a greater good than honour; and one might perhaps accordingly suppose that virtue rather than honour is the end of the political…

— Aristotle

“he rested in the knowledge that he was a child of the King, a saved, forgiven, precious, beloved son safe in the hollow of…

— Tim LaHaye

“If being alive is not a virtue, then there is little virtue in virtue.”

— Tom Robbins

“No one doubts your honourable nature, most noble of kings and best of brothers.”

— Sylvia Mercedes

“Virtue is the desire of things honourable and the power of attaining them.”

— Plato

“persuading himself that he was a most conscientious and glorious martyr, [he] nobly resolved to do what, if he had examined his own heart…

— Charles Dickens

“Virtue is not hereditary.”

— Thomas Paine

“Perhaps he did not think himself worthy of the King’s Tower, or perhaps he did not care. That was his mistake, the false humility…

— George R.R. Martin

“A man may indeed be an honest man; but the folly of sacrifice, of virginity, of devotedness, of martyrdom, arises only from faith in…

— Emile Bougaud

“There are a set of religious, or rather moral writers, who teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery,…

— Henry Fielding