Character Quote by Don Marquis Download Open image “When you can't have anything else, you can have virtue.” — Don Marquis ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Character Virtue
Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Virtue is about wanting right and good things, not about being particularly good at thinking. — Nomy Arpaly Copy Share Image
Virtue is the health, true state, natural complexion of the Soul. — Benjamin Whichcote Copy Share Image
“Virtue simply involves regulating your actions, words, and thoughts to create benefits rather than harms for yourself and others.” — Rick Hanson Copy Share Image
For if there's no everlasting God, there's no such thing as virtue, and there's no need of it. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with. — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
A certain alloy of expediency improves the gold of morality and makes it wear all the longer. — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
In all systems of theology the devil figures as a male person. Yes, it is women who keep the church going. — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
“How often when they find a sage As sweet as Socrates or Plato They hand him hemlock for his wage Or bake him like a sweet potato!-Taking the Longer View” — Don Marquis Copy Share
For all of the creeds are false, and all of the creeds are true; And low at the shrines where my brothers bow, there will I bow too; For no form of a god, and no fashion Man has made in his desperate passion, But is worthy some worship of mine; Not too hot with a gross belief, Nor yet… — Don Marquis Copy Share
“Vibrations are the key to everything. Atoms used to be, but atoms have quite gone out.” — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control. — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
I once heard the survivors of a colony of ants that had been partially obliterated by a cow's foot seriously debating the intention of… — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in… — Don Marquis 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
