Virtue Quotes

3568 Virtue quotes by 1599 unique authors

The romance genre is the only genre where readers are guaranteed novels that place the heroine at the heart of the story. These are books… — Jayne Ann Krentz
You always fashioned yourself as the Empire’s harshest Fist, didn’t you, Korbolo Dom? As if cruelty’s a virtue… — Steven Erikson
Detachment is a flaw, not a virtue-don’t you realize that? — Steven Erikson
Virtue looks good but it only suits imposing figures. — Frank Wedekind
The Steinway piano is such an incomparable instrument. Due to its virtues, I am able to express all my musical feelings. — Daniel Barenboim
Among the popular and representative systems of government I do not approve of the federal system: it is too perfect; and it requires virtues and… — Simon Bolivar
I have learned, by some experience, that virtue and patriotism, vice and selfishness, are found in all parties, and that they differ less in their… — William H. Seward
Even a pacifist should admire the military virtues. — John Keegan
I forsee a marked deterioration in American musicand a host of other injuries to music in its artistic manifestations, by virtue—or rather by vice—of the… — John Philip Sousa
FAITH. No one word personifies the absolute worst and most wicked properties of religion better than that. Faith is mind-rot. It’s the poison that destroys… — PZ Myers
Perseverance is a virtue that cannot be understated. — Bob Riley
The kind of society which we still have is maybe, in some cases, getting worse. Competition is becoming a virtue. Intense competition drives people to… — Major Owens
Mothers are not the nameless, faceless stereotypes who appear once a year on a greeting card with their virtues set to prose, but women who… — Erma Bombeck
Fishing provides time to think, and reason not to. If you have the virtue of patience, an hour or two of casting alone is plenty… — Carl Safina
Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too, as in certain combinations so words and in all kinds… — Plotinus
Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the wicked; might makes right; fear silences the power of… — Seneca the Younger
When misguided public opinion honors what is despicable and despises what is honorable, punishes virtue and rewards vice, encourages what is harmful and discourages what… — Frederic Bastiat
Men lose more conquests by their own awkwardness than by any virtue in the woman. — Ninon de L'Enclos
Sloth, if it has prevented many crimes, has also smothered many virtues. — Charles Caleb Colton
Power gradually extirpates for the mind every humane and gentle virtue. — Edmund Burke
Virtue is nothing without the trial of temptation, for there is no conflict without an enemy, no victory without strife. — Pope Leo I
I do not believe they are right who say that the defects of famous men should be ignored. I think it is better that we… — W. Somerset Maugham
Disobedience was man's Original Virtue. — Robert Anton Wilson
An interesting piece of work, freely chosen, which has the virtue of inducing concentration rather than fatigue, adds to the child's energies and mental capacities,… — Maria Montessori
In the Cross is salvation; in the Cross is life; in the Cross is protection against our enemies; in the Cross is infusion of heavenly… — Thomas a Kempis

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