Character Quote by Baroness Orczy Download Open image “Virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when it is crushed.” — Baroness Orczy ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Character Crushed Virtue
Virtue is like precious odours,-most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“Virtue is like precious odours, more fragrant when they are incensed or crushed; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Virtue is the health of the soul. It gives a flavor to the smallest leaves of life. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Virtue is the health, true state, natural complexion of the Soul. — Benjamin Whichcote Copy Share Image
Virtue is not the absence of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate thing, like pain or a… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
In the chain of my life, there were so many links, all of which tended towards bringing me to the fulfillment of my destiny. — Baroness Orczy Copy Share Image
“They looked at me and asked me to be merciful; they did not command, they begged ... asking for the pity that lay dormant… — Baroness Orczy Copy Share Image
“... Mr Jellyband was indeed a typical rural John Bull of those days --- the days when our prejudiced insularity was at its height,… — Baroness Orczy Copy Share Image
“She, at least, ought to have known that he was wearing a mask, and having found that out, she should have torn it from… — Baroness Orczy Copy Share Image
It is only when we are very happy that we can bear to gaze merrily upon the vast and limitless expanse of water, rolling… — Baroness Orczy Copy Share Image
“He made her laugh always made her taste a strange and exquisite bliss when he held her in his arms.” — Baroness Orczy Copy Share Image
music is the most absorbing of all the arts. It absorbs the mind of the artist, whether creator or executant, to the exclusion of… — Baroness Orczy Copy Share Image
“Had he but turned back then, and looked out once more on to the rose-lit garden, she would have seen that which would have… — Baroness Orczy Copy Share Image
The weariest night, the longest day, sooner or later must perforce come to an end. — Baroness Orczy Copy Share Image
...but in every century, and ever since England has been what it is, an Englishman has always felt somewhat ashamed of his own emotion… — Baroness Orczy Copy Share Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I'm often moved by the circumstances around some of my characters, but I don't think I've actually cried watching myself. — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
When you're on a daytime drama you get one page, you better damn well know your character. You better know what she would do… — David Hudgins Copy Share Image
It can sometimes make people fold into themselves and kind of run away, but I think in this case these characters are being forced… — Emily Deschanel Copy Share Image
If you are well-mannered towards those whose views are similar to yours, you may be said to exhibit a fairly good character. But, if… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
In the fight between biology and morality, biology has commonly won in the end. — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
Your looks don't make you pretty, it's the person inside who makes you pretty! — Aaron Chan Copy Share Image
I'm not a huge social media kind of guy, so I don't really know, I don't really ever get... at least in real life,… — Freddie Stroma Copy Share Image
If you stood me in a costume next to a computer graphic of the same-looking character, I think there would be a difference. And… — Warwick Davis Copy Share Image
