Virtue Quotes

Vice and virtue chiefly imply the relation of our actions to men in this world; sin and holiness rather imply their relation to God and the other world.

Isaac Watts
- World
- Action
- Sin
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

Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.

Honore de Balzac
- Soul
- Virtue
- Politeness
Optimism is a matter optics, of seeing what you want to see and not seeing what you don't want to see. Hope, on the other hand, is a Christian virtue. It is the unblinking acknowledgment of all that militates against hope, and the unrelenting refusal to despair. We have not the right to despair, and, finally, we have not the reason to despair

Richard John Neuhaus
- Reason
- Christian
- Matter
We speak of virtue, honour, reason; but our thought does not translate any one of these concepts into a substance.

Wilhelm Wundt
If one must do a wrong, it's best to do it pursuing power-otherwise, let's have virtue.

Euripides
- Power
- Virtue
- Wrong
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.

William Inge
- Play
- Looks
- Faults
The divine element manifests itself (or show up) in man as well by his aptitude for science, than by his aptitude for virtue. True morality, true philosophy and true art are in their essence ("dans leur essence", Fr.) religious."

African Spir