Virtuous Quotes

458 quotes by 300 authors

Honor a good woman because she is virtuous and honorable. — Delano Johnson
Beautiful princesses and beautiful, strong queens are brainwashed into thinking hoâ€™s and B****â€™s are virtuous titles. — Delano Johnson
I believe in the absolute oneness of God and, therefore, also of humanity. What though we have many bodies? We have but one soul. The… — Mahatma Gandhi
Now this relaxation of the mind from work consists on playful words or deeds. Therefore it becomes a wise and virtuous man to have recourse… — Thomas Aquinas
If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious. — Christian Nestell Bovee
There are nine hundred and ninety-nine patrons of virtue to one virtuous man. — Henry David Thoreau
Be virtuous and you'll be happy Nonsense Be happy and you'll begin to be virtuous. — James Gould Cozzens
The inquiry in England is not whether a man has talents and genius, but whether he is passive and polite and a virtuous ass and… — William Blake
To have money is to be virtuous, honest, beautiful and witty And to be without is to be ugly and boring and stupid and useless. — Jean Giraudoux
Many wish not so much to be virtuous, as to seem to be. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
A great man need not be virtuous, nor his opinions right, but he must have a firm mind, a distinctive luminous character. — George Santayana
The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man. — John Dryden
Constancy has nothing virtuous in itself, independently of the pleasure it confers, and partakes of the temporizing spirit of vice in proportion as it endures… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Nothing more surely cultivates and embellishes a man than association with refined and virtuous women. — William E. Gladstone
Virtuous people are simply those who have not been tempted sufficiently, because they live in a vegetative state, or because their purposes are so concentrated… — Isadora Duncan
People seem to think there is something inherently noble and virtuous in the desire to go for a walk. — Max Beerbohm
Modesty in dress and language and deportment is a true mark of refinement and a hallmark of a virtuous Latter-day Saint woman. — Ezra Taft Benson
There are people who are virtuous only in a piece-meal way; virtue is a fabric from which they never make themselves a whole garment. — Joseph Joubert
By the worldly standards of public life, all scholars in their work are of course oddly virtuous. They do not make wild claims, they do… — Jacob Bronowski
The end of all knowledge should be in virtuous action. — Philip Sidney

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