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William Shakespeare Quotes about Virtue

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Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.

Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.

William Shakespeare
Risk, Bold Actions, Virtue
'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 3, sc. 1, l. [214]

Your "if" is the only peacemaker; much virtue in "if.

William Shakespeare
Virtue, You Like It, Negotiation
'As You Like It' (1599) act 5, sc. 4, l. [108]

Sin, that amends, is but patched with virtue.

William Shakespeare
Sin, Virtue, Amends
'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 1, sc. 5, l. [52]

For it falls out That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it, but being lacked and lost, Why, then we rack the value, then we find The virtue that possession would not show us While it was ours.

William Shakespeare
Fall, Virtue, Lost
William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.1486, Oxford University Press

For in the fatness of these pursy times Virtue itself of vice must pardon beg.

William Shakespeare
Vices, Virtue, Pardon
'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 4, l. 153

Virtue's office never breaks men's troth.

William Shakespeare
Men, Office, Virtue
William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, George Steevens, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.426

Virtue is chok'd with foul ambition

William Shakespeare
Ambition, Virtue, Foul
William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.474

But virtue never will be mov'd, Though lewdness court it in a shape of heaven.

William Shakespeare
Heaven, Shapes, Virtue
William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.837

If our virtues did not go forth of us, it were all alike as if we had them not.

William Shakespeare
Virtue, Thrifty, Ifs

Virtue that transgresses is but patched with sin; and sin that amends is but patched with virtue.

William Shakespeare
Sin, Virtue, Amends
'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 1, sc. 5, l. [52]

It is held that valor is the chiefest virtue, and most dignifies the haver.

William Shakespeare
Courage, Dignity, Virtue
William Shakespeare, Oliver William Bourn Peabody, Samuel Weller Singer, Charles Symmons, John Payne Collier (1839). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: Richard III. Henry VIII. Troilus and Cressida. Timon of Athens. Coriolanus”, p.492

Therefore it is most expedient for the wise, if Don Worm (his conscience) find no impediment to the contrary, to be the trumpet of his own virtues, as I am to myself.

William Shakespeare
Wise, Virtue, Trumpets
William Shakespeare (2013). “Much Ado About Nothing Simplified!: Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling”, p.263, BookCaps Study Guides

The rarer action is in virtue than in vengeance.

William Shakespeare
Action, Vengeance, Virtue
Cross, William Shakespeare (1989). “William Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.1156, Barnes & Noble Publishing

So our virtues lie in the interpretation of the time

William Shakespeare
Lying, Historical, Virtue
William Shakespeare, Samuel Weller Singer, Edmond Malone, Charles Symmons, John Thompson (1826). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: Richard III. Henry VIII. Troilus and Cressida”, p.242

To be slow in words is a woman's only virtue.

William Shakespeare
Virtue
BookCaps, William Shakespeare (2012). “The Two Gentlemen of Verona in Plain and Simple English (A Modern Translation)”, p.150, BookCaps Study Guides

Kindness nobler ever than revenge.

William Shakespeare
Revenge, Kindness, Virtue
William Shakespeare, George Somers Bellamy (1875). “The New Shaksperian Dictionary of Quotations: (With Marginal Classification and Reference.)”, p.191

So will I turn her virtue into pitch, And out of her own goodness make the net That shall enmesh them all.

William Shakespeare
Virtue, Goodness, Desdemona
1603-4 Iago. Othello, act 2, sc.3, l.351-3.

Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.

William Shakespeare
Virtue, Calumny, Scapes
William Shakespeare (2001). “Hamlet”, p.63, Classic Books Company

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