Horace Walpole Quotes About Virtue

Quotes about: Virtue

• Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie.

  Horace Walpole

  Truth, Lying, Justice

• Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice.

  Horace Walpole

  Vices, Virtue, Lost

  In L. Kronenberger 'The extraordinary Mr Wilkes' (1974) pt. 3, ch. 2 'The Ruling Class'

• The contempt of money is no more a virtue than to wash one's hand is one; but one does not willingly shake hands with a man that never washes his.

  Horace Walpole

  Money, Men, Hands

• How much on outward show does all depend,
  If virtues from within no lustre lend!
  Strip off th'externals M and Y, the rest
  Proves Majesty itself is but a Jest.

  Horace Walpole

  Doe, Majesty, Royalty

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