Quotes of: Virtue Keyword

Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music.

Diogenes

The secret code of success is patience, a virtue that can not be replaced. It takes time to build great dreams.

Bernard Kelvin Clive

Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world.

Walter Bagehot

Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.

Will Durant

Success is no proof of virtue. In the case of a book, quick acclaim is presumptive evidence of a lack of substance and originality.

Walter Kaufmann

I don't like it when people ask actors to work for free - on the fringe - as if it's some kind of virtue. That annoys me - actors should be paid well.

Andrew Scott

Stella, the only planet of my light, Light of my life, and life of my desire, Chief good, whereto my hope doth only aspire, World of my wealth, and heav'n of my delight: Why dost thou spend the treasure of thy sprite, With voice more fit to wed Amphi...

Astrophel and Stella

The Renaissance did not break completely with mediaeval history and values. Sir Philip Sidney is often considered the model of the perfect Renaissance gentleman. He embodied the mediaeval virtues of the knight (the noble warrior), the lover (the man ...

The Routledge History of Literature in English: Britain and Ireland

But virtue, by the bare statement of its actions, can so affect men's minds as to create at once both admiration of the things done and desire to imitate the doers of them. The goods of fortune we would possess and would enjoy; those of virtue we lon...

The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, Vol 1

The respectable family that supports worthless relatives or covers up their crimes in order to "protect the family name"(as if the moral stature of one man could be damaged by the actions of another) -the bum who boasts that his great-grandfather was...

The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism

Only a clever human can make a real Joke about virtue, or indeed about anything else; any of them can be trained to talk as if virtue were funny. Among flippant people the joke is always assumed to have been made. No one actually makes it; but every ...

The Screwtape Letters

I wouldn’t say “art” as much as “virtue,” in the ancient Greek sense of “andreia” – manly action – or “arete,” excellence. In my experience, Resistance kicks in any time we try to move ourselves from a lower plane to a higher. I...

Steven Pressfield

Always be drunk. That’s it! The great imperative! In order not to feel Time’s horrid fardel bruise your shoulders, grinding you into the earth, Get drunk and stay that way. On what? On wine, poetry, virtue, whatever. But get drunk. And if you som...

Charles Baudelaire

Sometimes the best virtue learned on the battlefield is modesty.

The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War

A city is not adorned by external things, but by the virtue of those who dwell in it.

Enchiridion and Selections from the Discourses

He thought of the virtues of courage and forbearance, which become flabby when there is nothing to use them on.

East of Eden

Why all this deference to Alfred, and Scanderbeg, and Gustavus? Suppose they were virtuous; did they wear out virtue?

Essays, First Series

True vice, my lady, would frighten us all, if it did not wear the mask of virtue. (p.56)

Fortune's Son

You're perfectly safe. Emily is here to protect your virtue." "That's too bad.

The Girl in the Steel Corset

You must see challenges as virtues of opportunities for personal development. You will then have the strength to overcome the challenge.

Beautiful Quotes

In every age poets and social reformers have tried to stimulate the people of their own time to a nobler life by enchanting stories of the virtues of the heroes of old.

Alfred Marshall