It's a very bleak play, but there is some final sense of redemption. 'Coriolanus' shows mercy, a Christian virtue in an otherwise… — David Farr Copy Share Image
And so we shall have to do more than register and more than vote; we shall have to create leaders who embody… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“Neither exhortations to virtue nor the argument of approaching death should divert us from literature; for in a good mind it excites… — Petrarch Copy Share Image
The characters you refer to as predatory and unsavory are useful. They're the ones who make a novel into a thriller. They're… — Thomas Perry Copy Share Image
Ah! the best righteousness of our man-of-war world seems but an unrealized ideal, after all; and those maxims which, in the hope… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Because impudence is a vice, it does not follow that modesty is a virtue; it is built upon shame, a passion in… — Bernard de Mandeville Copy Share Image
Economy is a distributive virtue, and consists not in saving but selection. Parsimony requires no providence, no sagacity, no powers of combination,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
There is much virtue in a window. It is to a human being as a frame is to a painting, as a… — Max Beerbohm Copy Share Image
Remember how in that communion only, beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not… — Plato Copy Share Image
The term 'charisma' will be applied to a certain quality of an individual personality by virtue of which he is considered extraordinary… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
There are as many attitudes to cooking as there are people cooking, of course, but I do think that cooking guys tend… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
The more we grow in love and virtue and holiness, the more we see love and virtue and holiness outside. All condemnation… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
When the Gauls laid waste Rome, they found the senators clothed in their robes, and seated in stern tranquillity in their curule… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Today's banalities apparently gain in profundity if one states that the wisdom of the past, for all its virtues, belongs to the… — Russell Jacoby Copy Share Image
As an artist, I identify with Sandro Botticelli. We know him as the man who painted Primavera and The Birth Of Venus.… — Mary Pope Osborne Copy Share Image
She was like me in lineaments-- her eyes Her hair, her features, all, to the very tone Even of her voice, they… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Believe it, my good friend, to love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in the world, and… — Anthony Collins Copy Share Image
It is better to cherish virtue and humanity, by leaving much to free will, even with some loss of the object ,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
What we take for virtue is often nothing but an assemblage of different actions, and of different interests, that fortune or our… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Well, whiles I am a beggar, I will rail, And say there is no sin but to be rich; And being rich,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Let us again clothe ourselves with these proved and sterling virtues - honesty, truthfulness, chastity, sobriety, temperance, industry, and thrift; let us… — J. Reuben Clark Copy Share Image
I've been fortunate not to have been pigeonholed by virtue of being mixed-race, of being English and black, and by virtue of… — Thandie Newton Copy Share Image
I fear this is not the right exchange to attain virtue, to exchange pleasures for pleasures, pains for pains and fears for… — Plato Copy Share Image
When a girl leaves her home at eighteen, she does one of two things. Either she falls into saving hands and becomes… — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
'Tis all men's office to speak patience To those that wring under the load of sorrow; But no man's virtue nor sufficiency… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
One of the most effective means of seduction that Evil has is the challenge to struggle. It is like the struggle with… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
There's a whiff of the lynch mob or the lemming migration about any overlarge concentration of like-thinking individuals, no matter how virtuous… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Women bring with them into the world a certain virtue, a divine gift that makes them adept at instilling such qualities as… — D. Todd Christofferson Copy Share Image
Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault. It must speak, and speak immediately, while the… — Henry Anatole Grunwald Copy Share Image
Not contentment, but more power; not peace at any price, but war; not virtue, but efficiency (virtue in the Renaissance sense, virtu… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Obedience is the virtue that determines whether a person is either a servant or a rebel. Life of integrity is built on… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
The man of perfect virtue, wishing to be established himself, seeks also to establish others; wishing to be enlarged himself, he seeks… — Confucius Copy Share Image
You came empty handed, but of course that is not up to the world, will be with you'r Sin virtue, which will… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
I have brought him [my son] up to think that purity and virtue are both masculine and femanine gender, and that God's… — Marietta Holley Copy Share Image
We can think of Lent as a time to eradicate evil or cultivate virtue, a time to pull up weeds or to… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Their virtues lived in their children. The family changed its persons but not its manners, and they continued a blessing to the… — Sarah Fielding Copy Share Image
No one should be judged by their defects. The great virtues a person has are his or her especially. But their errors… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Superstition is related to this life, religion to the next; superstition is allied to fatality, religion to virtue; it is by the… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
One can be deceived by three types of laziness: of indolence, which is the wish to procrastinate; the laziness of inferiority, which… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image