Virtue Quotes
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The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.
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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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Withersoever the wheel of Fortune turns, Virtue stands firm upon her feet.
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The cardinal virtue of all beauty is restraint.
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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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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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Virtue's office never breaks men's troth.
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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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All parents want their offspring to be exemplars of virtue and achievement and happiness. But most of all, we want desperately for you to be safe - safe from disease and violence and self-destruction.
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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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Patience may be a virtue, but quitting is an art.
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Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit--or a mask.
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Virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government.
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The fame which is based on wealth or beauty is a frail and fleeting thing; but virtue shines for ages with undiminished lustre.
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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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Assume a virtue if you have it not.
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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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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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Heaven begat Virtue in me; what can man do unto me?
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In Hollywood a girl's virtue is much less important than her hairdo.
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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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Love is the source of every virtue in you and of every deed which deserves punishment.
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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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Epicurus says, "gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it." And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it.
