Virtuous Quotes · Page 12

“Dost think because thou art virtuous there shall be no more cakes and ale?" (Twelfth Night)”

— William Shakespeare

I do not know if she was virtuous, but she was ugly, and with a woman that is half the battle.

— Heinrich Heine

Spurn not the nobly born with love affected; nor treat with virtuous scorn the well connected.

— W. S. Gilbert

I shall say, that I feel myself virtuous, because my soul is at rest.

— Frances Wright

The malice of the wicked was reinforced by the weakness of the virtuous.

— Anonymous

There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

— Benjamin Franklin

...mastery of the emotions is fundamental to a virtuous life.

— A.C. Grayling

The core of a virtuous economic cycle lies in wage growth.

— Fumio Kishida

The loftiest in status are those who do not know their own status, and the most virtuous of them are those who…

— Al-Shafi‘i

The tempter or the tempted, who sins most? Ha! Not she: nor doth she tempt: but it is I That, lying by…

— William Shakespeare

The principle office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and…

— Anonymous

A husband can commit no greater blunder than to discuss his wife, if she is virtuous, with his mistress; unless it be…

— Honore de Balzac

I wondered again why the right thing always seemed to be met with so much resistance, when you'd think it would be…

— Sarah Dessen

To have money is to be virtuous, honest, beautiful and witty And to be without is to be ugly and boring and…

— Jean Giraudoux

Observe this, that tho a woman swear, forswear, lie, dissemble, back-bite, be proud, vain, malicious, anything, if she secures the main chance,…

— George Farquhar

My dear, be a good man be virtuous be religious be a good man. Nothing else will give you any comfort when…

— Walter Scott

Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse, or omission. It is the…

— Isabel Paterson

Those mutually opposed manifestos are written with the same eloquence, they breathe the same virtuous indignation, and one is just as sincere…

— Mikhail Bakunin

I do believe that not just the churches but strong communities, strong trade unions, strong families can make a difference in terms…

— Cornel West

Stravinskys music, hard, cold, unsentimental, enormously brilliant and virtuous, was now the favorite of my postadolescence. In a different way it achieved…

— George Antheil

In a virtuous government, and more especially in times like these, public offices are what they should be - burdens to those…

— Thomas Jefferson

One of the great myths in America is that sports build character. They can and they should. Indeed, sports may be the…

— Joe Ehrmann

This insinuation of the interests of the self into even the most ideal enterprises and most universal objectives, envisaged in moments of…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

We believe in being honest, true, chaste, benevolent and in doing good to all men; indeed we may say that we follow…

— Joseph Smith, Jr

And there's always soma to calm your anger, to reconcile you to your enemies, to make you patient and long-suffering. In the…

— Aldous Huxley

The sage belongs to the same obsolete repertory as the virtuous maiden and the enlightened monarch.

— Mason Cooley

It still remains true that no justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous.

— Anonymous

What shocks the virtuous philosopher, delights the chameleon poet.

— John Keats

To be innocent is to be not guilty; but to be virtuous is to overcome our evil inclinations.

— William Penn

I never did a thing in all my life, virtuous or otherwise that I didn't repent of within twenty-four hours.

— Mark Twain

Powerful states can maintain themselves only by crime, little states are virtuous only by weakness.

— Mikhail Bakunin

The Slothful do not have the time to become virtuous or despicable.

— Henry David Thoreau

To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked.

— Vittorio Alfieri

Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?

— William Shakespeare

“No action can be virtuous unless it is freely chosen.”

— Murray N. Rothbard

“Undoubtedly the dress of a virtuous and godly woman must differ from that of a strumpet.”

— John Calvin

Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we are saved by love.

— Reinhold Niebuhr

For many wish not so much to be, as to seem to be, endowed with real virtue.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The best thing about liver is how virtuous it makes you feel after you've eaten some.

— Bruce Jay Friedman

“It is more difficult for the poor to be virtuous. -The Cripple”

— F. Sionil José