Character Quote by Russell Kirk

“Beauty and art, no doubt, pervade all business of life like a kindly genius, and form the bright adornment of all our surroundings, both…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Beauty and art pervade all the business of life like a kindly genius, brightly adorning our surroundings whether interior or exterior, mitigating the seriousness…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and many others; the…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“The notion of a natural propensity for vice is essential to Sadeian psychology; vice is innate, as is virtue, if social conditions are unalterable.…

— Angela Carter

“For as we would wish that a painter who is to draw a beautiful face, in which there is yet some imperfection, should neither…

— Plutarch

“Circumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself. No such conditions can exist as descending into vice and its attendant sufferings…

— James Allen

“We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone. Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice leaves its…

— James Williams

Our vices always lie in the direction of our virtues, and in their best estate are but plausible imitations of the latter.

— Henry David Thoreau

May the humanity that is within every human being be held precious. The vice that underlies all vices is that we are held cheap…

— Felix Adler

Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.

— Alexander Pope

“What blurt is this about virtue and about vice? Evil propels me and reform of evil propels me, I stand indifferent, My gait is…

— Walt Whitman

“Humans are caught -- in their lives, in their thoughts, in their hungers and ambitions, in their avarice and cruelty, and in their kindness…

— John Steinbeck