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.

Edmund Burke

That cardinal virtue, temperance.

Edmund Burke

All virtue which is impracticable is spurious.

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.

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.

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.

Chelsea Handler

It’s true what they say about patience being a virtue; it just happens to be a virtue that I choose not to pursue.

Aristotle

There must be in prudence also some master virtue.

Eliza Haywood

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

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.

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.

William Shakespeare

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

David Brooks

There is a virtue in shamelessness.

Baroness Orczy

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

Ayn Rand

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

Juvenal

Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised.

William Shakespeare

So will I turn her virtue into pitch, And out of her own goodness make the net That shall enmesh them all.

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

William Shakespeare

To be slow in words is a woman's only virtue.

John Schuerholz

Lonnie is, by virtue of what we do and what he does, our adversary. But he does it in a professional way. I'll say that.

Bill Bryson

Cheapness is a great virtue.

Don Marquis

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

Alexander Pope

Virtue alone is happiness below.

E. O. Wilson

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