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Virtue Quotes - Page 39

There is a virtue in shamelessness.

"Shields and Brooks on high stakes for debate moderators, a dead heat in the polls". "PBS NewsHour" with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. September 9, 2016.

You cannot lift others to virtue on the one hand if you are entertaining vice on the other.

"The Moral Force of Women". D. Todd Christofferson's Address at the General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, www.lds.org. October 2013.

He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.

Ben Jonson, Barry Cornwall (1838). “The Works of B. J. with a Memoir of His Life and Writings, by Barry Cornwall [i.e. B. W. Procter].”, p.754

Modesty is not one of my virtues.

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

For youthful faults ripe virtues shall atone.

William Wordsworth (1994). “The Collected Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.105, Wordsworth Editions

Kindness nobler ever than revenge.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Virtue is chok'd with foul ambition

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

Virtue's office never breaks men's troth.

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