Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Chadwick

Patience is not a virtue!

William Shakespeare

If our virtues did not go forth of us, it were all alike as if we had them not.

William Shakespeare

Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.

David Brooks

There is a virtue in shamelessness.

Baroness Orczy

Virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when it is crushed.

Eliza Haywood

Those possest of the greatest Virtues are always least pleas'd with the repetition of them ...

Bertolt Brecht

Whenever there are great virtues, it's a sure sign something's wrong.

Benjamin Netanyahu

The Romans used to say that courage is not the only virtue, but it's the only one that makes the other virtues possible.

Bernard Meltzer

One of the great virtues of our democratic system is that only one of the candidates gets elected.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

The time has arrived when patience becomes a crime and mayhem appears garbed in a manner of virtue

Benjamin Franklin

Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy.

Benjamin Franklin

Seek virtue and of that posest, to Providence resign the rest.

Benjamin Franklin

Strict punctuality is a cheap virtue.

William Shakespeare

Your "if" is the only peacemaker; much virtue in "if.

Billy Bragg

A virtue never tested is no virtue at all.

Boethius

One's virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune.

Juvenal

Virtue is the only and true nobility. [Lat., Nobilitas sola est atque unica virtus.]

Juvenal

So much greater is our thirst for glory than for virtue.

Archibald Alexander

Virtue consists in doing our duty in the several relations we sustain, in respect to ourselves, to our fellowmen, and to God, as known from reason, conscience, and revelation.

Ayn Rand

Let us destroy, but don't let us pretend that we are commiting an act of virtue.

Aristotle

There must be in prudence also some master virtue.

To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.

Edmund Burke

That cardinal virtue, temperance.

Edmund Burke

All virtue which is impracticable is spurious.

Albert Camus

Obstinacy alone is not a virtue.

Virtue has many preachers, but few martyrs.

No nation has reason to regard itself superior to others by virtue of its innate endowment.

Amos Bronson Alcott

One's outlook is a part of his virtue.

Ambrose Bierce

VIRTUES, n.pl. Certain abstentions.

Aesop

It is easy to kick a person when he is down.

Alexander Pope

Virtue alone is happiness below.

E. O. Wilson

In science, obsessiveness under psychological control can be a virtue.

Don Marquis

When you can't have anything else, you can have virtue.