Origin of the quote, "Patience is a virtue"

[Steelersfan413]

Hi my English teacher last year said that the term, "Patience is a virtue" originated from a British Sniper in WWII who was watching Hitler or something?

Is this true? And if not does anyone know where it did come from?

[SBL]

Why? Is it for homework?

[Steelersfan413]

No but the teacher said he wasn't 100% sure and he'd like to know himself

[SBL]

In the future I recommend googling these things yourself.

http://www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_board/4/messages/1250.html

[dedbunniez]

Google is your friend. Google

origin of quote patience is virtue

first link...

[Steelersfan413]

I googled Patience is a virtue and it didn't give me anything. Oh well. thanks guys

*Edit*

Oh never mind. I just skipped over it stupidly

[SBL]

I googled Patience is a virtue and it didn't give me anything. Oh well. thanks guys
Next time try being a little more specific.:cantbeli:
Google is not hard to operate.

[deagle]

tell your teacher to google it him/herself :

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22patience+is+a+virtue%22+%22origin%22&btnG=Search

[-Church-]

The proverb has been traced back to 'Piers Plowman' (1377) by William Langland and is similar to the Latin, Maxima enim..patientia virtus (Patience is the greatest virtue) and the French, Patience est une grant vertu. (Patience is a great value.) Some ten years after Langland, Chaucer wrote in 'The Canterbury Tales' (1386) that 'Patience is a high virtue.' Sometimes followed by the wry rejoinder 'but virtue can hurt you.' First cited in the United States in 1724 in the 'Works of Thomas Chalkley' (1766)..."


'La patience est une grande vertu'.

[Connaught Ranger]

Hi my English teacher last year said that the term, "Patience is a virtue" originated from a British Sniper in WWII who was watching Hitler or something?

Is this true? And if not does anyone know where it did come from?

Outside the saying, there were no British Snipers watching Hitler, this Urban Myth arose from a report of a WW2 plan to para-drop a sniper team into the area of Hitlers home in Bavaria to take him out, however, the British concluded that letting Hitler continue to interfere with German military planning was the best course of action to take.

Connaught Ranger:)

[Stainless Steel Rat]

I prefer this one, myself:


“Beware the fury of a patient man.” - John Dryden