Quotes of: Virtue Keyword

Conservation may be a sign of personal virtue, but it is not a sufficient basis for a sound, comprehensive energy policy.

Dick Cheney

One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination.

Sam Levenson

Consistency is the most overrated of all human virtues... I'm someone who changes his mind all the time.

Malcolm Gladwell

A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.

Joseph Addison

Kitty Fane: As if a woman ever loved a man for his virtue.

The Painted Veil

Virtue is not photogenic. What is it to be a nice guy? To be nothing, that's what. A big fat zero with a smile for everybody.

Kirk Douglas

We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.

William Penn

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.

George Bernard Shaw

In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless.

Aleister Crowley

It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.

Anatole France

Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.

Adela Florence Nicolson

I want to present interesting stories that don't qualify themselves just by virtue of their ethnographic type.

Ajay Naidu

Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.

Alexander Pope

The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.

Aristotle

Just as meekness is in all our virtues, so is pride in all our sins. -Oct 1986

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Even virtue is fairer when it appears in a beautiful person.

Virgil

Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase are fruits of innocence and blessedness.

William C. Bryant

I often think a lot of women's attraction to vampires is based on the fact that vampires come from centuries ago, from eras of chivalry and courtly virtues.

Stephen Moyer

Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed, is now being bombed and burned into democracy.

J. B. Priestley

War, not peace, produces virtue. War, not peace, purges vice. War, and preparation for war, call forth all that is noble and honorable in a man. It unites him with his brothers and binds them in selfless love, eradicating in the crucible of necessity...

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