Love Quote by Samuel Johnson

To love their country has been considered as virtue in men, whose love could not be otherwise than blind, because their preference was made…

— Samuel Johnson

Make them free, and they will quickly become wise and virtous, as men become more so; for the improvement must be mutual, or the…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

“The real reason that nonviolence is considered to be a virtue in Negroes— I am not speaking now of its racial value, another matter…

— James Baldwin

Open-mindedness is considered to be a virtue. But, strictly speaking, it cannot occur. A new experience must be redacted into old categories. We cannot…

— Anonymous

“Full revelation, she couldn't help feeling, was something which was considered a virtue only among the reckless or the cruel.”

— Sally Vickers

It was considered a virtue not to talk unnecessarily at sea...

— Ernest Hemingway

Renown is something people have always wanted, but maybe what's modern is that it's considered a virtue, this desire, rather than a vice. I…

— Sheila Heti

I was brought up in an era when thrift was still considered a virtue.

— Anonymous

Blind submission in women is considered a virtue, while submission to wrong is itself wrong, and resistance to wrong is virtue alike in women…

— Ernestine Rose

Virtue between men is a commerce of good actions: he who has no part in this commerce must not be reckoned.

— Voltaire

“Virtue . . . is the same for men and for women.”

— Antisthenes

Popularity is a crime from the moment it is sought; it is only a virtue where men have it whether they will or no.

— George Savile