Character Quote by John L'Heureux Download Open image “Let good people sin. Give virtue to rotters.” — John L'Heureux ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Character Crafts Giving Good people Letting go People Sin Virtue
There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“We shouldn't enable ourselves or others to bad behavior, but should always encourage for good. Our attitude toward sin is a reflection of our… — Michael Brent Jones Copy Share Image
You can't have virtue without sin. What I'm after is having my characters' virtues defined by how they operate in a very sinful environment.… — Frank Miller Copy Share Image
In order for good to blossom it must be cultivated and exercised by constant practice, and to be truly righteous there is required a… — Harold B. Lee Copy Share Image
Sin corrupts even our good deeds. We injure our shoulder trying to pat ourselves on the back. — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
We cannot well do without our sins; they are the highway of our virtue. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
What a strange thing it is to recognize a sound like the shriek of a wounded animal, when you've never heard the shriek of… — John L'Heureux Copy Share Image
There's something about a parenthesis in fiction that puts one off, saying, "It's me, moi, jumping in now." — John L'Heureux Copy Share Image
You must get beyond divertissement, sketch, anecdote, the interesting moment. You must get to the mystery of human personality. What is the line of… — John L'Heureux Copy Share Image
“on the other hand, who would be a more dedicated gay-basher than a gay school board member? look at congress.” — John L'Heureux Copy Share Image
Obscenities are too often used for shock value, as a kind of shorthand for real expression of emotion. You've got to scale down your… — John L'Heureux Copy Share Image
“A story is about a single moment in a character's life when a definitive choice is made, after which nothing is the same.” — John L'Heureux Copy Share Image
Nothing on earth in fiction is less interesting than characters under the influence of alcohol. — John L'Heureux Copy Share Image
Using language like jungle growth isn't the solution to telling a story. — John L'Heureux Copy Share Image
A short story is a writer's way of thinking through experience... Journalism aims at accuracy, but fiction's aim is truth. The writer distorts reality… — John L'Heureux Copy Share Image
Plot does not simply move with time, but spreads out conceptually in metaphorical space. — John L'Heureux 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
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
