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Virtue Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.
- Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
- Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.
- Women have a thirst for order and beauty as for something physical; there is a strange female power of hating ugliness and waste as good…
- The whole truth is generally the ally of virtue; a half-truth is always the ally of some vice.
- Business, especially big business, is now organized like an army. It is, as some would say, a sort of mild militarism without bloodshed; as I…
- When people talk as if the Crusades were nothing more than an aggressive raid against Islam, they seem to forget in the strangest way that…
- Americans are a very backward people, with all the real virtues of a backward people; the patriarchal simplicity and human dignity of a democracy, and…
- Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all. And faith means believing the incredible, or it is no virtue…
- The modern world is not evil; in some ways the modern world is far too good. It is full of wild and wasted virtues. When…
- The modern world is full of the old Christian virtues gone mad. The virtues have gone mad because they have been isolated from each other…
- Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all... As long as matters are really hopeful, hope is mere flattery…
- Virtue is not the absence of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate thing, like pain or a particular…
- Tolerance is the virtue of those who don't believe anything.
- I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
- The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice.
- There is no such thing as education. The thing is merely a loose phrase for the passing on to others of whatever truth or virtue…
- Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you…
- If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue.
More Virtue Quotes
- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we… — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved. — Aristotle
- Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least… — Aristotle
- The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom. — Aristotle
- All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. — Aristotle
- What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or… — Giorgio Armani
- Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion… — Karen Armstrong
- Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot… — Saint Augustine
- The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted. — Saint Augustine