Quotes about Virtue

Always do what's right; this will gratify some and astonish the rest

Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.

It is abhorrent to me when a fine intelligence is paired with an unsavory character

Half at least of all morality is negative and consists in keeping out of mischief. The lords prayer is less than 50 words long, and 6 of those words are devoted to asking god not to lead us into temptation.

I'm not denying their kindness," said the Rani. "But after all kindness isn't the only virtue.

Simplicity is no virtue unless you are potentially complicated.

If you allowed yourselves to think of God, you wouldn't allow yourselves to be degraded by pleasant vices. You'd have a reason for bearing things patiently, for doing things with courage..

Wretched, in a word, because she had behaved as any healthy and virtuous English girl ought to behave and not in some other, abnormal, extraordinary way.

The people who make wars, the people who kill and torture and tell lies in the name of their sacred causes, the really evil people in a word- these are never the publicans and the sinners. No, they're the virtuous, respectable men, who have the finest feelings, the best brains, the noblest ideals.

There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.

Anybody can be virtuous now. You can carry at least half your morality about in a bottle. Christianity without tears - that's what soma is.

That is the secret of happiness and virtue - liking what you've got to do.