Virtue Quotes
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I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
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Any man can be kind when he is comfortable. I'd always thought kindness a trivial virtue, therefore. But when we were hungry, thirsty, sick, frightened, with our deaths shouting at us, in the heart of horror, you were still as unfailingly courteous as a gentleman at ease before his own hearth.
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Tolerance is a virtue, but like all virtues, when exaggerated, it transforms itself into a vice. We need to be careful of the “tolerance trap” so that we are not swallowed up in it. The permissiveness afforded by the weakening of the laws of the land to tolerate legalized acts of immorality does not reduce the serious spiritual consequence that is the result of the violation of God’s law of chastity.
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He used to say that virtue could make herself devoted friends, but she did not take pupils.
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Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
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From virtue all happy states arise.
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Beauty is the flower of virtue.
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I hate when vice can bolt her arguments, And virtue has no tongue to check her pride.
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No man is born wise; but wisdom and virtue require a tutor; though we can easily learn to be vicious without a master.
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It must be admitted that the conception of virtue cannot be separated from the conception of happiness-producing conduct.
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I have a tendency, after a play of mine is produced, to look back on it disparagingly, seeing only its faults; before production, I see only its virtues.
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Assume a virtue if you have it not.
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Detachment is a flaw, not a virtue - don’t you realize that?
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Woman is stronger by virtue of her feelings than man by virtue of his power.
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Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water.
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Let praise be given equally to women as well as men who have been distinguished in virtue.
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Thoroughly convinced of the impossibility of his own suit, a high resolve constrained him not to injure that of another. This is a lover's most stoical virtue, as the lack of it is a lover's most venial sin.
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True humility does not know that it is humble. If it did, it would be proud from the contemplation of so fine a virtue.
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Gratitude is not a virtue I believe in, and to me it seems hypocritical to expect it from a child.
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Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.
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Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.
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Like so many of the bits of conversation I recall, the meanings hidden in childhood only become clear now that I write them down. Most were just small lessons, people trying to prove their virtue to each other, but because I wasn't supposed to be listening, I made things out to be more important than they were. Maybe that's why our childhoods seem so big, so resonant, while our adult years slip by like fish in the river Byk.
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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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The tools are evolving, and people's interests are evolving as well. So, suddenly people like to hear bands, people like Devendra Banhart or the xx, bands that make a kind of virtue of sloppiness. That isn't what they would describe what they're doing, but the fact is they make a virtue of the sort of hand-made nature of what they're doing.
