It is much more immoral to claim virtue without fully living with its direct consequences.

There is no worse vice than one that imitates virtue; worst of all is the one that claims virtue: virtue signaling.

Wisdom that is hard to execute isn't really wisdom.

There was nothing—in Eliot’s admittedly limited experience—more tedious than virtue.

Virtue is admirable, but boring.

How odious a virtue the much praised simplicity. The only simplicity for which I would give a straw is that which is on the other side of the complex — not that which never has divined it.

Sincerity is the most overrated virtue in the catalogue.

Virtue is persecuted by the wicked more than it is loved by the good.

Every virtue that reaches the exaggeration, is becoming a defect

All forced virtue is degrading in its effect.

Conformity is the inspiration of much second-rate virtue.

The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.

It is but sorrow to be wise when wisdom profits not.

Everybody makes fun of virtue, which by now has, as its primary meaning, an affectation of prudery practiced by hypocrites and the impotent.