Character Quote by Dominique Bouhours Download Open image “There are some persons on whom virtue sits almost as ungraciously as vice.” — Dominique Bouhours ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Character Persons Vices Virtue
I think it is extremely interesting to think that, in some cases, vice might be, finally, more redemptive than virtue. — Katy Lederer Copy Share Image
Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied, And vice sometime by action dignified. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
There are some who write, talk, and think, so much about vice and virtue, that they have no time to practice either the one… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice. — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
There is some virtue in almost every vice, except hypocrisy; and even that, while it is a mockery of virtue, is at the same… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Who does not sufficiently hate vice, does not sufficiently love virtue. — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau Copy Share Image
I am about to - or I am going to - die; either expression is correct. — Dominique Bouhours Copy Share Image
Silence is a virtue in those who are deficient in understanding. — Dominique Bouhours Copy Share Image
I am about to - or I am going to - die; either expression is used. ( His last words ) — Dominique Bouhours 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 to face issues and emotions, feelings, that they have. So it kind of forces them to face it head on, which I think is a really interesting dynamic. And I think it should be interesting and… — Emily Deschanel Copy Share
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
