Hypocrisy is not generally a social sin, but a virtue.
Judith Martin
Ambition, in a private man is a vice, is in a prince the virtue.
Philip Massinger
I want to present interesting stories that don't qualify themselves just by virtue of their ethnographic type.
Ajay Naidu
The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.
Jawaharlal Nehru
Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it only for pleasure's sake, we are selfish... →
John Henry Newman
Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.
Adela Florence Nicolson
What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Uncommon valor was a common virtue.
Chester W. Nimitz
The liberation of Iraq, which is already hard to justify from the perspective of American interests, at least had the virtue of freeing Iraqis from a... →
Timothy Noah
Hypocrisy is the tribute that vice pays to virtue.
Grover Norquist