Famous Quotes & Sayings

Corrie Ten Boom

There is explosive power in virtue.

Confucius

Even if I could, I would not exahnge their virtues for my own. And that is why they are intent on learning from me.

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.

Bill Bryson

Cheapness is a great 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.

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.

William Shakespeare

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

Francois Fenelon

Courage is a virtue only so far as it is directed by prudence.

Jose Marti

It is necessary to make virtue fashionable.

Malcolm Forbes

You're fortunate when you can afford to be virtuous.

Henry Ward Beecher

We cannot have right virtue without right conditions.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Conscience is the sentinel of virtue.

John Henry Newman

Knowledge is one thing, virtue is another.

Giuseppe Mazzini

Constancy is the complement of all other human virtues.

Herbert Spencer

It must be admitted that the conception of virtue cannot be separated from the conception of happiness-producing conduct.

Flannery O'Connor

Unadaptability is often a virtue.

Gary Zukav

As you come to seek and see the virtues and strengths and nobilities of others, you begin to seek and see them in yourself also.

Germaine Greer

As Angelo discovered in Measure for Measure, nothing corrupts like virtue.

Frances Wright

The sciences have ever been the surest guides to virtue.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

There is no virtue if there is no immortality.

Friedrich Nietzsche

It is a distinction to have many virtues, but a hard lot.

Jeremy Taylor

for there is some virtue or other to be exercised, whatever happens...

Geoffrey Chaucer

Make a virtue of necessity.

If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.

George R. R. Martin

I have the virtue of being still amongst the living. Some would say that is my only virtue.

Euripides

If one must do a wrong, it's best to do it pursuing power-otherwise, let's have virtue.

Francis Bacon

Virtue is like precious odours,-most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.

Graham Greene

There's a virtue in slowness, which we have lost

Horace

I wrap myself up in virtue. [Lat., Mea virtute me involvo.]

Friedrich Nietzsche

When virtue has slept it will arise more vigorous.

Jane Porter

Nobility, without virtue, is a fine setting without a gem

Muriel Spark

Nothing can be more puritanical in application than the virtues.