Character Quote by Peter Ustinov

“Virtue consists not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.” She”

— Christine Wiltz

Well, but you affirm that virtue is only elicited by temptation; - and you think that a woman cannot be too little exposed to…

— Anne Bronte

Virtue does not truly reward her votary if she leaves him sad and half doubtful whether it would not have been better to serve…

— George William Curtis

If virtue cannot shine bright, but by the conflict of contrary appetites, shall we then say that she cannot subsist without the assistance of…

— Michel de Montaigne

“To behold virtue in her proper form is nothing else but to contemplate morality stripped of all admixture of sensible things and of every…

— Immanuel Kant

I hate when vice can bolt her arguments, And virtue has no tongue to check her pride.

— John Milton

Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied, And vice sometime by action dignified.

— William Shakespeare

There is some virtue in almost every vice, except hypocrisy; and even that, while it is a mockery of virtue, is at the same…

— William Hazlitt

So virtue is a purposive disposition, lying in a mean that is relative to us and determined by a rational principle, and by that…

— Aristotle

Virtue is her own reward.

— John Dryden

Virtue is about wanting right and good things, not about being particularly good at thinking.

— Nomy Arpaly

Virtue by calculation is the virtue of vice.

— Joseph Joubert