Virtue Quotes
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Authorship is, according to the spirit in which it is pursued, an infamy, a pastime, a day-labor, a handicraft, an art, a science, a virtue.
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Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.
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Atheism believes that truth for truth's sake is the highest ideal and that virtue is its own reward.
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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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I have not lost my faith; and this I must attribute more to a miracle than to my own wisdom; more to Divine Providence than to my own virtue. Steadfastly, in fact from my earliest childhood, I have made this my prayer, "Lord God... grant me long life, and wisdom, and health of mind and body."
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For Socrates, virtue was nothing but its own pursuit. And only the promise of happiness is happiness itself.
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To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous.
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Modesty is policy, no less than virtue.
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The resistance of a woman is not always a proof of her virtue, but more frequently of her experience.
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The more powerful the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it; and the difficulties with which we are met are the maids of honor which set off virtue.
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True friendship is self-love at second hand; where, as in a flattering mirror we may see our virtues magnified and our errors softened, and where we may fancy our opinion of ourselves confirmed by an impartial and faithful witness.
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Those who make virtue their profession are the ruin of virtue.
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Never esteem people (including yourself) more because they have money, nor think less of anyone (including yourself) because they lack it. Virtue is the only just reason for respecting anyone, lack of virtue the only reason for holding anyone in low regard.
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Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
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A woman mixed of such fine elements That were all virtue and religion dead She'd make them newly, being what she was.
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Art is the one thing that's the universal virtue that you can have in any class.
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If one must do a wrong, it's best to do it pursuing power-otherwise, let's have virtue.
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The cardinal virtue of all beauty is restraint.
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Virtue's office never breaks men's troth.
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I've written about 2,000 short stories; I've only published 300 and I feel I'm still learning. Any man who keeps working is not a failure. He may not be a great writer, but if he applies the old fashioned virtues of hard, constant labor, he'll eventually make some kind of career for himself as a writer. Ray Bradbury, 1967 interview (Doing the Math - that means for every story he sold, he wrote six "un-publishable" ones. Keep typing!)
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In Hollywood a girl's virtue is much less important than her hairdo.
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Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit--or a mask.
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Successful villany is called virtue.
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Withersoever the wheel of Fortune turns, Virtue stands firm upon her feet.
