What are kings, when regiment is gone, but perfect shadows in a sunshine day?

- Christopher Marlowe

Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness.

- Christopher Marlowe

Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, and burnt the topless towers of Ileum?

- Christopher Marlowe

Accurst be he that first invented war.

- Christopher Marlowe

That perfect bliss and sole felicity, the sweet fruition of an earthly crown.

- Christopher Marlowe

Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribed In one self place, for where we are is hell, And where hell is there must we ever be.

- Christopher Marlowe

Virtue is the fount whence honour springs.

- Christopher Marlowe

Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.

- Izaak Walton

I always admired virtue - but I could never imitate it.

- Charles II

Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.

- Francis Bacon

Virtue consisted in avoiding scandal and venereal disease.

- Robert Cecil

Exaggerated self-importance is deemed an individual fault, but a racial virtue.

- Kelly Millar