Patricia Wentworth - Virtue Quotes

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To be always right — was there a more enraging faculty in the world? Was it a faculty, or a virtue? If it was a virtue, it was certainly the most disagreeable of all the virtues — a tyrannical prig of a virtue, the sort of virtue which makes you want to go and wallow in vice.

Patricia Wentworth

There are virtues which are very well in the abstract, but which, encountered in the flesh, can be a source of extreme irritation.

Patricia Wentworth