Character Quote by Sue Grafton

Too much virtue can be criminal.

— Jean Racine

“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

“Virtue simply involves regulating your actions, words, and thoughts to create benefits rather than harms for yourself and others.”

— Rick Hanson

“Only you could take one of my worst character faults and turn it into a virtue.”

— Susan Andersen

“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

“Virtue is imaginative. Evil, repetitive.”

— Dean Koontz

“In truth: virtue comes from habit, not just gabbing about goodness.”

— Damon Young

“Virtue is too passive, too narrow. Virtue can motivate individuals, but for groups, societies, a whole civilisation, it’s a weak force. Nations are never…

— Ian McEwan

“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

“Virtue is admirable, but boring.”

— John Twelve Hawks

“On Virtue - Goodness is its own reward. It has to be; nothing else rewards it.”

— Marsha Hinds

“Virtue is not hereditary.”

— Thomas Paine