Quotes of: Virtue Keyword

Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind.

Francois Fenelon

Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

You cannot be kind unless you have all the other virtues.

C.S. Lewis

It is a natural virtue incident to our sex to be pitiful of those that are afflicted.

Elizabeth I

Let them call it mischief: When it is past and prospered t'will be virtue.

Ben Jonson

Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.

Honore de Balzac

When virtues are pointed out first, flaws seem less insurmountable.

Judith Martin

What we're fighting against isn't an out-and-out vice. It's an overgrown, perverted virtue.

Jared Taylor

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

J. Paul Getty

Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues.

Joseph Hall

All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.

Edmund Burke

The plastic virtues: purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection.

Guillaume Apollinaire

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

Baruch Spinoza

Value manifests itself as exchange value, as a quantitatively determined relationship, in virtue of the fact that one commodity can be exchanged for another.

Rudolf Hiferding

Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.

E. W. Howe

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

Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.

Albert Camus

Many people think that virtue consists of severity towards others.

Alphonse Karr

The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.

Alexander Pope