Quotes about virtue
884 quotes from 395 people
Oscar Wilde1854–1900“The Relation of Dress to Art”, The Pall Mall Gazette (February 28, 1885)
Ambrose Bierce1842–1914Epigrams
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax1633–1695Miscellaneous Thoughts and Reflections
John Greenleaf Whittier1807–1892Ichabod, reported in Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Robert Burns1759–1796A Winter Night (1787)
Anatole France1844–1924Les Dieux Ont Soif [The Gods Are Thirsty] (1912), ch. XV
Samuel Johnson1709–1784Life of Johnson (Boswell) (1777)
Joseph Addison1672–1719The Guardian (1713), No. 99I judge people by what they might be,—not are, nor will be.
Robert Browning1812–1889A Soul’s Tragedy (1846), Act ii.Patience, n. A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue.
Ambrose Bierce1842–1914The Devil’s Dictionary (1911)Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.
John Ruskin1819–1900The Two Paths (1859)The vocation of every man and woman is to serve other people.
Leo Tolstoy1828–1910What Is To Be Done? (1886) Chap. XL, as translated in The Novels and Other Works of Lyof N. Tolstoï (1902) edited by Nathan Haskell Dole, p. 281The note of the perfect personality is not rebellion, but peace.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow1807–1882Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie (1847), Part II, section 1.
