Can you nominate in order now the degrees of the lie? I will name you the degrees. The first, the Retort Courteous;… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The purpose of polite behavior is never virtuous. Deceit, surrender, and concealment these are not virtues. The goal of the mannerly is… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
In Hollywood a girl's virtue is much less important than her hairdo. — Marilyn Monroe Copy Share Image
How could you do nothing to him, if you fought so hard?” she asked. “I’m lust and he’s wrath!” he yelled. “I’m… — Amanda Hocking Copy Share Image
Drunken with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you will. But be drunken. — Eugene O'Neill Copy Share Image
Whatever is done without ostentation, and without the people being witnesses of it, is, in my opinion, most praiseworthy: not that the… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
There is nothing to do with men [and women] but to love them; to contemplate their virtues with admiration, their faults with… — Orville Dewey Copy Share Image
Travelers find virtue in a seeming minority in all other countries, and forget that they have left it in a minority at… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson Copy Share Image
Are people the best judges of their own happiness, or outsiders? In defining happiness, should we think of entire lives or of… — Sissela Bok Copy Share Image
Isn't there any statute of limitation in things spiritual? I don't believe any large mind dwells on its sins, any more than… — Margaret Deland Copy Share Image
Men who do not forgive women their little faults will never enjoy their great virtues. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Men grind and grind in the mill of a truism, and nothing comes out but what was put in. But the moment… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I am and have always been a strong proponent of public education. But by the virtue of its very nature - publicly… — Mark Foley Copy Share Image
There is hardly any deviancy, no matter how reprehensible in one context, which is not extolled as a virtue in another. There… — Freda Adler Copy Share Image
It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The mysteries of a universe made of drops of fire and clods of mud do not concern us in the least. The… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Certainly the first true humans were unique by virtue of their large brains. It was because the human brain is so large… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
I am not sure how much good is done by moralising about fairy tales. This can be unsubtle - telling children that… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
Let it be told to the future world, that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
It is not every calamity that is a curse, and early adversity is often a blessing. Perhaps Madame de Maintenon would never… — James Sharp Copy Share Image
The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, it to understand things by intuition. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
Tidiness is a virtue, symmetry is often a constituent of beauty... — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
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