virtue
n. Primary personality trait and implement for annoying others.
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n. Its own punishment.
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Cynical Quotations
The wages of sin is death, but so is the salary of virtue.
— Unknown
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No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
— Bertrand Russell
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It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
— Abraham Lincoln
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The virtues we attribute to people at their best – loyalty and devotion, courage and gentleness, integrity and spirit – are found so rarely that we name schools for the men and women who display them. But you'd be hard pressed to find a dog who doesn't live them every day.
— Scott Raab
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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
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Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
— David Starr Jordan
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