Character Quote by Sue Grafton Download Open image ““Too much virtue has a corrupting effect.”” — Sue Grafton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Character Corruption Effects Too much Virtue
“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 simply involves regulating your actions, words, and thoughts to create benefits rather than harms for yourself and others.” — Rick Hanson Copy Share Image
“Only you could take one of my worst character faults and turn it into a virtue.” — Susan Andersen Copy Share Image
“Virtue becomes unhealthy if it is not softened by some misdemeanours, and faith quickly becomes cruel if it is not subdued by certain doubts.” — Amin Maalouf Copy Share Image
“Virtue is too passive, too narrow. Virtue can motivate individuals, but for groups, societies, a whole civilisation, it’s a weak force. Nations are never… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
“A virtue that only causes havoc and unhappiness is worth nothing. You can call it virtue if you like. I call it cowardice.” — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“On Virtue - Goodness is its own reward. It has to be; nothing else rewards it.” — Marsha Hinds Copy Share Image
“Life is hard. Life hurts. So what? You tough it out. You get through and then you'll feel good again.” — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
“I can just about promise you Philip Marlowe was never as dainty as I.” — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
“You can always push people around, but it's not a good idea. Better to let them volunteer information for reasons of their own. You… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
Thinking is hard work, which is why you don't see many people doing it. — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
“It’s hard to have faith in your fellow man when you’re forced to look at some of his handiwork.” — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
Insecure people have a special sensitivity for anything that finally confirms their own low opinion of themselves. — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
“I wondered if I'd ever be nice enough to volunteer for anything. I was hoping not.” — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats. — Sue Grafton 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
If you stood me in a costume next to a computer graphic of the same-looking character, I think there would be a difference. And… — Warwick Davis Copy Share Image
