* Virtue: A quality of quiet saintliness that today incites even more resentment than undeserved wealth or success at Trivial Pursuit.
= Rick Bayan, American writer, cynic. The Cynic’s Dictionary (1994)

* To gain a reputation for virtue, grieve over those you injure.
= Mason Cooley, American aphorist. City Aphorisms, Fourth Selection (1987)

* Villainy wears many masks, none of which so dangerous as virtue.
= Ichabod Crane (Johnny Depp) in the film, Sleepy Hollow (1999)

* To be able to practise five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue...gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.
= Confucius, Analects, fifth century B.C.

* Let this great maxim be my virtue’s guide,—
In part she is to blame that has been tried:
He comes too near that comes to be denied.
= Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762), The Lady’s Resolve (1713)

* The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.
= Elizabeth Taylor, as quoted in The Seven Deadly Sins (2000) by Steven Schwartz, p. 23

* Everybody makes fun of virtue, which by now has, as its primary meaning, an affection of prudery practiced by hypocrites and the impotent.
= Thomas Merton, The Seven Storey Mountain (1948)

* Virtue consists in doing our duty in the several relations we sustain in respect to ourselves, to our fellow men, and to God, as known from reason, conscience, and revelation.
= James Waddel Alexander,

* We cannot have right virtue without right conditions.
= Henry Ward Beecher,