Virtue Quotes · Page 89

“He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire." [On British Labour politician Stafford Cripps.] ”

— Winston S. Churchill

The most glorious exploits do not always furnish us with the clearest discoveries of virtue or vice in men.

— Plutarch

No adulation; 'tis the death of virtue; Who flatters, is of all mankind the lowest Save he who courts the flattery.

— Hannah More

All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.

— Moliere

Another of our highly prized virtues is fidelity. We are immensely pleased with ourselves when we are faithful.

— I. A. R. Wylie

Personally I regard idling as a virtue, but civilized society holds otherwise.

— J. Maarten Troost

Love is the source of every virtue in you and of every deed which deserves punishment.

— Dante Alighieri

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

No one should be judged by their defects. The great virtues a person has are his or her especially. But their errors…

— Swami Vivekananda

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

Pygmies are pygmies still, though percht on Alps; And pyramids are pyramids in vales. Each man makes his own stature, builds himself.…

— Edward Young

One can be deceived by three types of laziness: of indolence, which is the wish to procrastinate; the laziness of inferiority, which…

— Dalai Lama

For virtue is a light and buoyant thing, and all who live in her way fly like clouds as Isaiah says, and…

— Gregory of Nyssa

The virtue of a democratic system with a [constitutionally guaranteed right to free speech] is that it readily enables the people, over…

— Antonin Scalia

One of the most effective means of seduction that Evil has is the challenge to struggle. It is like the struggle with…

— Franz Kafka

A cold and searching wind drives away all contagion, and nothing can withstand it but what has a virtue in it, and…

— Henry David Thoreau

No system can long command the loyalties of men and women which does not expect of them certain measures of discipline, and…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

First, you hand over some basics-overwhelming joy, existential angst, a giving-in to desire, etc. And then you promise to withstand talking idly…

— Julianna Baggott

Never lose your self-respect, nor be too familiar with yourself when you are alone. Let your integrity itself be your own standard…

— Baltasar Gracian

But I do think the idea that basic cooking skills are a virtue, that the ability to feed yourself and a few…

— Anthony Bourdain

A sick man, surrounded by those who love him, nursed by those who wish earnestly that he should live, will recover (all…

— Honore de Balzac

If I tell you that I would be disobeying the god and on that account it is impossible for me to keep…

— Socrates

Contrary to popular opinion, Christians are not nice polite people who never get angry with one another. Those are not the virtues…

— Barbara Brown Taylor

Riches are but a means, or instrument; and the virtue of an instrument lies in its use.

— Benjamin Whichcote

A sacrament by virtue of which each imparts nothing but vexations to the other.

— Honore de Balzac

There are no women to whom virtue comes easier than those who possess no attractions.

— Anonymous

If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

What is the virtue and service of a book? Only to help me live less gingerly and shabbily.

— Christopher Morley

Humility is a virtue all preach, none practice; and yet everybody is content to hear.

— John Selden

A man is fortunate if he encounters living examples of vice, as well as of virtue, to inspire him.

— Brendan Behan

Virtue is not to be considered in the light of mere innocence, or abstaining from harm; but as the exertion of our…

— Joseph Butler

For Mythology is the handmaid of literature; and literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness.

— Thomas Bulfinch

Recommend to your children to be virtuous, only the virtue can bring us happiness, not the money.

— Ludwig van Beethoven

It is by virtue of the atonement that God can maintain His justice and yet demonstrate His mercy...

— R. C. Sproul

Look within. The heart is the foundation of virtue; and it is for eternity ready to do virtuous works.

— Paul Delaroche

Everybody's part of the greater whole and skepticism and virtue are a part of that.

— Marc Webb

“It is politics to please and hoodwink those Who flatter but despise us.”

— Tiruvalluvar

A man of virtue, judgment, and prudence speaks not until there is silence.

— Saadi

When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.

— Thomas Paine