Character Quote by Loraine Despres Download Open image ““The most important thing about virtue is to talk as if you're in favor of it.”” — Loraine Despres ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Character Important Important thing Talk Favor Thing Virtue Virtue Virtue Talk
“Virtue is an excellent thing and we should all strive after it, but it can sometimes be a little depressing.” — Barbara Pym Copy Share Image
“Virtue is the desire of things honourable and the power of attaining them.” — Plato 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
“On Virtue - Goodness is its own reward. It has to be; nothing else rewards it.” — Marsha Hinds Copy Share Image
“One who calls virtue into being is one who has what it takes to make a success.” — Anyaele Sam Chiyson Copy Share Image
“Our hands, or minds, our feet hold more intelligence. With this I have no quarrel. But, what about virtue?” — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“this is the greatest good to man, to discourse daily on virtue, and other things which you have heard me discussing, examining both myself… — Plato Copy Share Image
“Feeling important is a vice, not a virtue, however concealed as participation in something noble.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“I've come to believe that virtue isn’t a condition of character. It’s an elected action. It’s a choice we keep making, over and over,… — Rhoda Janzen Copy Share Image
“Virtue is excellence, something uncommonly great and beautiful, which rises far above what is vulgar and ordinary.” — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
“[Belle]'d fallen in love with him at fifteen, galloping down clay roads with the leaves of autumn swirling around them. They'd discovered the nooks… — Loraine Despres Copy Share Image
“If you know anything about summer in Louisiana you know that the heat, moist and heavy, presses down on the pavement until it sends… — Loraine Despres Copy Share Image
“Letting go is the best revenge. It frees your heart for much more satisfying pursuits.” — Loraine Despres Copy Share Image
“Love is like cigarettes. It gives you a little pleasure while you're at it, but leaves you with a bad taste in your mouth… — Loraine Despres Copy Share Image
“Sissy wasn't really beautiful, but men never noticed. With her deep green eyes, her shoulder-length auburn hair that swung when she moved, and the… — Loraine Despres Copy Share Image
“Belle turned around. She looked down at her hands, hardened with work. They might have been city hands once, but they weren't anymore, and… — Loraine Despres 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