Character Quote by Danielle Teller

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

— Tom Robbins

“Virtue becomes unhealthy if it is not softened by some misdemeanours, and faith quickly becomes cruel if it is not subdued by certain doubts.”

— Amin Maalouf

“those renunciations that men have unwisely called virtue, as much as those natural rebellions that wise men still call sin.”

— Oscar Wilde

“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

“I’ve always felt that virtue lies in obtaining what is out of one’s reach, in living where one isn’t, in being more alive after…

— Fernando Pessoa

“we are all born pure. It is our journey that burdens us and leads us astray. Our mistakes that beat us down and cover…

— Madeline Sheehan

“Virtue is venerable as nothing else in this world is.”

— John Steinbeck

“Virtue is an excellent thing and we should all strive after it, but it can sometimes be a little depressing.”

— Barbara Pym

“Virtue, should there be anyone who still ignores the fact, always finds pitfalls on the extremely difficult path of perfection, but sin and vice…

— José Saramago

“A virtue that only causes havoc and unhappiness is worth nothing. You can call it virtue if you like. I call it cowardice.”

— W. Somerset Maugham

“You know that no one ever escaped the effect of his own good or evil deeds. For each of our actions is like a…

— Lakshmi Holmstrom

“However imperfect our conception of virtue, still let us cling to it; for a moment’s forgetfulness exposes us to all the malignant forces from…

— Maurice Maeterlinck