Character Quote by Oscar Wilde

“loving for their mere artificiality those renunciations that men have unwisely called virtue, as much as those natural rebellions that wise men still call…

— Oscar Wilde

“Some rise by sin, and some by virtues fall. ”

— William Shakespeare

“He said that the notion that evil is seldom rewarded was greatly overspoken for if there were no advantage to it then men would…

— Cormac McCarthy

“like all wicked people he could do things which defied the means of honest men, for evil is always more easily managed than virtue.)”

— Thomas Berger

“Virtue is a system and men do heroic acts as part of the day's work and without self-consciousness.”

— Charles H. Cooley

“I no longer believe that people are born without virtue. It gets beaten out. Misfortune threshes our souls as a flail threshes wheat, and…

— Danielle Teller

“Virtue - to be good and just - Every heart, when sifted well, Is a clot of warmer dust, Mix'd with cunning sparks of…

— Alfred Tennyson

“The ruthlessness of the godly invalidated their claims of virtue.”

— Salman Rushdie

“I've come to believe that virtue isn’t a condition of character. It’s an elected action. It’s a choice we keep making, over and over,…

— Rhoda Janzen

“Balance is more than light and dark, more than sin and virtue.”

— Julie Anne Addicott

“What we term virtue is often but a mass of various actions and diverse interests, which fortune, or our own industry, manage to arrange;…

— François de La Rochefoucauld

“Men are not gentle and graceful beings solely oriented towards good. They are physical, coarse, contradictory, stretched between desires and temptations. In an unnatural…

— Alija Izetbegović