Virtue Quotes
-
The cardinal virtue of all beauty is restraint.
Elsie de Wolfe -
Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit--or a mask.
William Hazlitt
-
Those who make virtue their profession are the ruin of virtue.
Confucius -
The virtue of a human being is the application of his capacity to the general good.
William Godwin -
It was one thing to go to the end of the world; it was quite another thing to make oneself at home there. Even respectability seemed to lose some of its virtue when one practiced it in a tent.
Hector Hugh Munro -
Curb your talent lest it speed where virtue does not guide.
Dante Alighieri -
See, this is the way I see it. Not all anger is the same. Because there are different kids of anger. And you know what else - sometimes, anger is a virtue. As long as you're not making someone bleed.
Benjamin Alire Saenz -
Gratitude is not a virtue I believe in, and to me it seems hypocritical to expect it from a child.
Hermann Hesse
-
Detachment is a flaw, not a virtue - don’t you realize that?
Steven Erikson -
In Hollywood a girl's virtue is much less important than her hairdo.
Marilyn Monroe -
Failure seems to be regarded as the one unpardonable crime, success as the all-redeeming virtue, the acquisition of wealth as the single worthy aim of life. Ten years ago such revelations as these of the Erie Railway would have sent a shudder through the community, and would have placed a stigma on every man who had had to do them. Now they merely incite others to surpass by yet bolder outrages and more corrupt combinations.
Charles Francis Adams, Sr. -
Virtue when concealed is a worthless thing.
Claudius Claudianus -
Some learned writers . . . have compared a Scorpion to an Epigram . . . because as the sting of the Scorpion lyeth in the tayl, so the force and virtue of an epigram is in the conclusion.
Edward Topsell -
Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.
Cato the Younger
-
The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.
Blaise Pascal -
Virtue is that perfect good, which is the complement of a happy life; the only immortal thing that belongs to mortality.
Seneca the Younger -
O son, thou hast not true humility, The highest virtue, mother of them all; But her thou hast not know; for what is this? Thou thoughtest of thy prowess and thy sins Thou hast not lost thyself to save thyself.
Alfred Lord Tennyson -
Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
Petrarch -
Friendship is the next pleasure we may hope for: and where we find it not at home, or have no home to find it in, we may seek it abroad. It is an union of spirits, a marriage of hearts, and the bond thereof virtue.
William Penn -
There is no device whatever to be invented for securing happiness without industry, economy, and virtue.
William Graham Sumner
-
Prudence is one of the virtues which were called cardinal by the ancient ethical writers.
William Fleming -
For the superior morality, of which we hear so much, we too would desire to be thankful: at the same time, it were but blindness to deny that this superior morality is properly rather an inferior criminality, produced not by greater love of Virtue, but by greater perfection of Police; and of that far subtler and stronger Police, called Public Opinion.
Thomas Carlyle -
The hero draws inspiration from the virtue of his ancestors.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
William Cowper