William Shakespeare Virtue Quotations

This life, which had been the tomb of his virtue and of his honour, is but a walking shadow; a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

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.

Virtue's office never breaks men's troth.

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

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

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

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

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

Sin, that amends, is but patched with virtue.

Kindness nobler ever than revenge.

Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.

He lives in fame that died in virtue's cause.

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

Assume a virtue if you have it not.

Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.

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.

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

So our virtues lie in the interpretation of the time

The rarer action isIn virtue than in vengeance.

Tis all men's office to speak patience To those that wring under the load of sorrow; But no man's virtue nor sufficiency To be so moral when he shall endure The like himself

Virtue is chok'd with foul ambition

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

The rarer action is in virtue than in vengeance.

Teach thy necessity to reason thus; There is no virtue like necessity