Characteristic Quote by Melvin Van Peebles

A people so individual in its genius, so tenacious in love or hate, so captivating in its nobler moods.

— F. E. Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead

My tenacity and determination to be true to the person I had become were sacrosanct.

— Goldie Hawn

Each character represented a trait that resides in me.

— Chuck Jones

I may be indigent in name, position, and in appearance, but in my own mind I am an unrivaled goddess -

— Muriel Barbery

The desire to be singular and to astonish by ways out of the common seems to me to be the source of many virtues.

— Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

It has amazed me that the most incongruous traits should exist in the same person and, for all that, yield a plausible harmony.

— W. Somerset Maugham

I like to think that my arrogance, impetuosity, impatience, selfishness and greed are the qualities that make me the lovable chap I am.

— Richard Hammond

I always admired virtue - but I could never imitate it.

— Anonymous

Virtue and sense are one; and, trust me, still A faithless heart betrays the head unsound.

— John Armstrong

The only virtue I want to claim is truth and nonviolence.

— Mahatma Gandhi

It is a distinction to have many virtues, but a hard lot.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald