Judith Martin Quotes About Virtue
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When virtues are pointed out first, flaws seem less insurmountable.
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Dishonesty is not the only alternative to honesty. There is also the highly underrated virtue of shutting up.
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Honesty is a virtue, but not the only one. If you're in a courtroom you need the whole truth and nothing but the truth; in the living room, sometimes you need anything but. Often.
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Like language, a code of manners can be used with more or less skill, for laudable or for evil purposes, to express a great variety of ideas and emotions. In itself, it carries no moral value, but ignorance in use of this tool is not a sign of virtue.
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It is, indeed, a trial to maintain the virtue of humility when one can't help being right.
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Hypocrisy is not generally a social sin, but a virtue.
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Visiting the sick is supposed to exhibit such great virtue that there are some people determined to do it whether the sick like it or not. ... All visitors everywhere are supposed to make plans to depart if they observe their hosts visibly wilting or in pain, but this is especially true at hospitals.
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