Virtue Quotes
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I love him who desireth not too many virtues. One virtue is more of a virtue than two, because it is more of a knot for one's destiny to cling to.
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My experience with working with really great actors is you don't have to act. All you have to do is listen. And, that's sort of a virtue and a wonderful thing to be able to experience. It's so much less work.
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Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine ACTIONS than in the non-performance of base ones.
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Virtue consists in doing our duty in the several relations we sustain, in respect to ourselves, to our fellowmen, and to God, as known from reason, conscience, and revelation.
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Though Americans talk a good deal about the virtue of being serious, they generally prefer people who are solemn over people who are serious. In politics, the rare candidate who is serious, like Adlai Stevenson, is easily overwhelmed by one who is solemn, like General Eisenhower. This is probably because it is hard for most people to recognize seriousness, which is rare, especially in politics, but comfortable to endorse solemnity, which is as commonplace as jogging.
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One can also be undignified and flattering toward a virtue.
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Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.
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The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, it to understand things by intuition.
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If hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue, piousness is virtue paying tribute to itself.
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Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! Virtue is at hand.
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It is the admirer of himself, and not the admirer of virtue, that thinks himself superior to others.
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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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He who possess virtue in abundance may be compared to an infant.
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We cannot assume that people by virtue of the fact that they are black are going to associate themselves with progressive political struggles. We need to divest ourselves the kinds of strategies that assume that black unity black political unity is possible.
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We must give alms. Charity wins souls and draws them to virtue.
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Happiness may be defined as good fortune joined to virtue, or a independence, or as a life that is both agreeable and secure.
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The man or the woman in whom resides greater virtue is the higher; neither the loftiness nor the lowliness of a person lies in the body according to the sex, but in the perfection of conduct and virtues.
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Sensible of the importance of Christian piety and virtue to the order and happiness of a state, I cannot but earnestly commend to you every measure for their support and encouragement
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Wrong people are wrong not because of their faults but because of their presumed virtues.
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He was a man of his times. with one virtue and a thousand crimes.
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Friendship is that virtue by which spirits are bound by ties of love and sweetness and out of many are made one.
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One citizen differs from another, but the salvation of the community is the common business of them all. This community is the constitution; the virtue of the citizen must therefore be relative to the constitution of which he is a member.
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I desire Virtue, though I love her not- I have no faith in her when she is got: I fear that she will bind and make me slave And send me songless to the sullen grave.
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I have lived one hundred years; and I die with the consolation of never having thrown the slightest ridicule upon the smallest virtue.
