Mean Quote by Robert Graves

In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.

— B. Carroll Reece

Most people are so constituted that they can only be virtuous in a certain routine; an irregular course of life demoralizes them.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

I am astonished at the pleasure one experiences in doing good; and I should be tempted to believe that what we call virtuous people…

— Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

Virtuous people are simply those who have not been tempted sufficiently, because they live in a vegetative state, or because their purposes are so…

— Isadora Duncan

The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.

— Plato

I begin to find an idle and fond bondage in the oppression of aged tyranny, who sways, not as it hath power, but as…

— William Shakespeare

Those who, either from their own engagements and hurry of business, or from indolence, or from conceit and vanity, have neglected looking out of…

— Joshua Reynolds

Today it is not a matter of ‘conserving’ the present or returning to a recent past that has failed, but rather of regaining possession…

— Guillaume Faye

“To me,' said Mr. Herbert, 'it seems rather that the only hope for the present age lies in the possibility of some individual wiser…

— William Hurrell Mallock

Human beings of any age need to approve of themselves; the bad times in history come when they cannot.

— Anonymous

“What seems strained - a mere triumph of perverse ingenuity - to one age, seems plain and obvious to another, so that our ancestors…

— C.S. Lewis

There is virtue in virtuosity, especially today, when it protects us from the tedious spectacle of ineptitude.

— Robert Hughes