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Virtue Quotes by Jane Austen
- Loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable; that one false step involves her in endless ruin; that her reputation is no less brittle than…
- How little of permanent happiness could belong to a couple who were only brought together because their passions were stronger than their virtue.
- Fine dancing, I believe like virtue, must be its own reward. Those who are standing by are usually thinking of something very different.
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