Virtue Quotes
Through true honestydeeply believethat all sentient-beings are one.That all beings have the sametrue nature,wisdom,virtue.
Deliberate virtue is never worth much: The virtue of feeling or habit is the thing.
A man has virtues enough if he deserves pardon for his faults on account of them.
Bourgeois morality is largely a system of making cheap virtues a cloak for expensive vices.
The virtuous nothing fear but life with shame, And death's a pleasant road that leads to fame.
I hate purity, I hate goodness! I don't want virtue to exist anywhere. I want everyone to be corrupt to the bones.
One wants to live, of course, indeed one only stays alive by virtue of the fear of death.
I have the virtue of being still amongst the living. Some would say that is my only virtue.
A deed happens in a definite place at a definite time, but if it be sufficiently great and pregnant, its virtue radiates everywhere in time and space.
No matter how hard a man may labor, some woman is always in the background of his mind. She is the one reward of virtue.
Some out of their own virtue make a god who sometimes later is a nuisance to them, a terror perhaps to them, a difficult thing to be forgetting.
If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue.
Women have a thirst for order and beauty as for something physical; there is a strange female power of hating ugliness and waste as good men can only hate sin and bad men virtue.
The whole truth is generally the ally of virtue; a half-truth is always the ally of some vice.
There is no strength that is greater than the strength of virtue. There is no other nobility equal to the nobility of virtue. There is no quality so becoming, no attire so attractive.
A rich woman seems to have all her banknotes about her, guarding her virtue, like a cuirass, in the lining of her corset.
Pastor: One employed by the wicked to prove to them by his example that virtue doesn't pay.
For a guy who is always banging on about the masculine virtues, Nixon had this remarkable proclivity for very dainty gestures.
The rich man is always sold to the institution which makes him rich. Absolutely speaking, the more money, the less virtue.
Somehow strangely the vice of men gets well represented and protected but their virtue has none to plead its cause - nor any charter of immunities and rights.
The virtue of making two blades of grass grow where only one grew before does not begin to be superhuman.
The broadest and most prevalent error requires the most disinterested virtue to sustain it.
What is chastity? How shall a man know if he is chaste? He shall not know it. We have heard of this virtue, but we know not what it is.
The man who takes the liberty to live is superior to all the laws, by virtue of his relation to the lawmaker.
This is a moment in our history - that we can thank neoliberalism for - that has really destroyed what Hannah Arendt called "the virtue of thoughtfulness."
The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.
Nothing can compare in beauty, and wonder, and admirableness, and divinity itself, to the silent work in obscure dwellings of faithful women bringing their children to honor and virtue and piety.
There is a patience that cackles. There are a great many virtues that are hen-like. They are virtue, to be sure; but everybody in the neighborhood has to know about them.
To be a born American citizen seems a guarantee against pauperism; and this, perhaps, springs from the virtue of a vote.
The 'leisured' wife was a badge of achievement, the ornament to hard work and virtue for families on the way up.
Virtually all the trends that matter are making a mockery of the industry's ritual incantations about the values and virtues of a free press in a free society.
How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!
The Police and the Society of Jesus posses in common the virtue of never forsaking their enemies as friends.