Quotes of: Virtue Keyword

Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.

Izaak Walton

Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.

Sallust

Faith is the foundation upon which a godlike character is built. It is a prerequisite for all other virtues.

Ezra Taft Benson

Charity is a supreme virtue, and the great channel through which the mercy of God is passed onto mankind.

Conrad Hilton

Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.

Lyman Abbott

The dominating idea of English society was not cultivate virtue but to avoid scandal.

Edward Short

A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue.

Edith Wharton

Negroes are human beings with exactly the same faults and virtues as members of the other races.

Ethel Waters

The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.

F. H. Bradley

Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The definition of Brevity: That which people believe would be a virtue - in me!

Greg Curtis

The virtue of some people consists wholly in condemning the vices in others.

Herbert Samuel

Every faculty and virtue I possess can be used as an instrument with which to worry myself.

Hale White

Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice.

Horace Walpole

According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication.

Irving Babbitt

Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.

Joseph Addison

New solutions win by virtue of adoption, and they don't get adopted if they're bad solutions.

John Perry Barlow

A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

Daniel Webster

Your stockings prove your virtues. Be certain they are clean and free of tears.

Emilie Autumn

Vice is nice, but a little virtue won't hurt you.

Edward Gorey