Quotes of: Virtue Keyword

Virtue in a woman is like pepper in the soup. A little makes for a nice seasoning. But overdo it, and no one wants very much of you.

Married By Morning

Heaven doesn't only teach humans about virtue and divinity. It also shows us about politics and corruption; and that's a fact.

Master of Stupidity

Pride is one of the seven deadly sins; but it cannot be the pride of a mother in her children, for that is a compound of two cardinal virtues — faith and hope.

Nicholas Nickleby

Whatever causes night in our souls may leave stars. Cimourdain was full of virtues and truth, but they shine out of a dark background.

Ninety-Three

[T]he great end of education . . . is to persuade and to inspire the sincere love of virtue.

Observations upon Liberal Education, in All Its Branches

I'm sure the other kids wouldn't mind not being lectured by another toddler over the virtues of sharing and the mental benefits of toy blocks.

Mimi Attacks

I’d give him a cup of coffee and a big helping of a knuckle sandwich. Generosity was a virtue and I was in the mood to be extremely virtuous.

Magic Bleeds

She looks very virtuous and very melancholy." "Virtue is like the precious odors, most fragrant when it is crushed.

The Scarlet Pimpernel

The virtue of maps, they show what can be done with limited space, they foresee that everything can happen therein.

The Stone Raft

The humble sage, by virtue of true knowledge, sees with equal vision a learned and gentle brāhmaṇa, a cow, an elephant, a dog, and a dog-eater.

The Science of Self-Realization

She who has the excellence of home virtues, and can expend within the means of her husband, is a help in the domestic state

Thirukkural

Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.

The Problem of Increasing Human Energy

True humility is a kind of self-annihilation; and this is the centre of all virtues.

A Plain Account of Christian Perfection (Foundations of Faith)

Oh, my friends, that your self be in your deed as the mother is in her child - let that be your word concerning virtue!

The Portable Nietzsche

Patience is a virtue and the best things in life are worth waiting for.

The Perils of Cyber-Dating: Confessions of a Hopeful Romantic Looking for Love Online

Virtue is excellence, something uncommonly great and beautiful, which rises far above what is vulgar and ordinary.

The Theory of Moral Sentiments

The nationalist regrets the change; an ill-founded belief in the merits of purity blinds him to the virtues of the foreign and the hybrid.

The Thirty Years War

All I wanted was a man who could love and who loved me, who I could share my secrets with and know his.

Virtue Falls

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

Meditations

Society is indeed a contract. ... It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection.

Reflections on the Revolution in France

Humility is a virtue that one can find, in which God in heaven rejoices ,and in His love he enfolds you, close to his heart He does bind.

Henrietta Newton Martin