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| In Hollywood a girl's virtue is much less important than her hairdo. You're judged by how you look, not by what you are. Hollywood's a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for kiss, and fifty cents for your soul. I know, because I turned do | | Marilyn Monroe | |
| In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers. | | Herman Melville | |
| It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues | | Jonathan Swift | |
| It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions. | | Aristotle | |
| It is the peculiar boast of our country, that her happiness is alone dependent on the collective wisdom and virtue of her citizens, and rests not on the exertions of any individual | | George Washington | |
| Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue. | | Buddha | |
| Maybe there ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue, they's just what people does. Some things folks do is nice and some ain't so nice, and that's all any man's got a right to say. | | John Steinbeck | |
| Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit. | | Benjamin Disraeli | |
| Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice | | Thomas Paine | |
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| No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it. | | Ovid | |
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| Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love. | | George Bernard Shaw | |
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| People with virtue must speak out; People who speak are not all virtuous. | | Confucius | |
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| Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery. | | Winston Churchill | |
| The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues. | | Rene Descartes | |
