Make a virtue of necessity

Posted by Bob on October 17, 2003

In Reply to: Make a virtue of necessity posted by Phillip R. McDonald on October 17, 2003

: The Phrase Finder says this phrase "make a virtue of necessity" comes from Shakespeare's Two Gentlemen of Verona, but it can be found in line 3042 of the Knight's Tale from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales:
: Thanne is it wysdom, as it thynketh me,
: To maken vertu of necessitee,
: And take it weel that we may nat eschue,
: And namely that to us alle is due.

Good catch.