Character Quote by E. W. Howe Download Open image “Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.” — E. W. Howe ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Character Degrees Men Men and women Valuable Virtue Women
What we take for virtue is often but an assemblage of various ambitions and activities that chance, or our own astuteness, have arranged in… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
What we take for virtue is often nothing but an assemblage of different actions, and of different interests, that fortune or our industry knows… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
There is virtue in virtuosity, especially today, when it protects us from the tedious spectacle of ineptitude. — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
One's virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune. — Boethius Copy Share Image
Virtue is a beautiful thing in woman when they don't go about with it like a child with a drum making all sorts of… — Douglas William Jerrold Copy Share Image
Virtue is our true wealth and the true reward of its possessor; it cannot be lost, it never deserts us until life leaves us. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
There is always a type of man who says he loves his fellow men, and expects to make a living at it. — E. W. Howe Copy Share Image
Men are a good deal better collectively than they are individually. Many a man will do that privately which he will denounce in a… — E. W. Howe Copy Share Image
The greatest thing in the world is for a man to be able to do something well, and say nothing about it. — E. W. Howe Copy Share Image
No man would listen to you talk if he didn't know it was his turn next. — E. W. Howe Copy Share Image
People never have confidence in a Big Talker. They know his statements must be cut down, but they can never tell how much. — E. W. Howe Copy Share Image
The only gambling tip which amounts to anything is to keep out of the game. — E. W. Howe Copy Share Image
One has fear in front of a goat, in back of a mule, and on every side of a fool — E. W. Howe Copy Share Image
This may sound strange, but although I feel like I know everything about my characters, the brand of shampoo they use, how many cavities… — Gail Honeyman 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… — Emily Deschanel Copy Share Image
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
