Quotes about virtue
virtue offense rejecting
I don't know exactly what covetous is, but in my experience it is not so much desiring someone else's virtue or happiness as rejecting it, taking offense at the beauty of it. Marilynne Robinson
virtue servant willing
We become willing servants to the good by the bonds their virtues lay upon us. Philip Sidney
virtue
In the truly great, virtue governs with the sceptre of knowledge.
virtue blushing colour
Blushing is the colour of virtue. Matthew Henry
virtue christ easy
It would not be easy even for an unbeliever, to find a better translation of the rule of virtue from the abstract into the concrete, than to endeavor so to live that Christ would approve our life. John Stuart Mill
virtue command beggar
Virtue, though clothed in a beggar's garb, commands respect. Friedrich Schiller
virtue principal
Patriotism must be founded on great principals and supported by great virtue. Henry Bolingbroke
virtue social nonviolence
Nonviolence is not merely a personal virtue. It is also a social virtue to be cultivated like other virtues. Mahatma Gandhi
virtue humankind amiable
Virtue is not always amiable. John Adams
virtue parliament humankind
We cannot insure success, but we can deserve it.
virtue oversight packages
It is one of the most culpable oversights of nature that virtue and beauty so often come in separate packages. Will Durant
virtue idleness
Idleness breeds our better virtues. William Faulkner
virtue granted hours
You proclaim that one should die for the highest virtues, because you take it for granted that nobody's been living for them, not even for a single hour. Robert Musil
virtue mask dangerous
Villainy wears many masks; none so dangerous as the mask of virtue. Washington Irving
virtue
Virtue debases itself in justifying itself. Voltaire
virtue commit fatherland
Wherever I see some mystique, be it virtue or family, faith or fatherland, there I must commit some indecent act. Witold Gombrowicz
virtue easy form
Persecution is a very easy form of virtue. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
virtue innocent
Guess what? By virtue of being American, you are not innocent. Ward Churchill
virtue excellent capacity
There is also something excellent in every audience,--the capacity of virtue. They are ready to be beatified. Ralph Waldo Emerson
virtue mark
Beauty is the mark God sets upon virtue.
virtue cathartic tarts
Tart, cathartic virtue.
virtue locals
Virtue is too often merely local. Samuel Johnson
virtue praise servant
The highest panegyric, therefore, that private virtue can receive, is the praise of servants.
virtue foolish theory
Leave your theories. All theories, you see, even those of virtue, are bad, foolish, mischievous. Romain Rolland
virtue said intellect
If I say that Shakespeare is the greatest of intellects, I have said all concerning him. But there is more in Shakespeare's intellect than we have yet seen. It is what I call an unconscious intellect; there is more virtue in it that he himself is aware of. Thomas Carlyle
virtue stubbornness ifs
Stubbornness is a virtue if you are right. Tony Dungy
virtue injury higher
There is no virtue higher than non-injury. Swami Vivekananda
virtue hereditary
Virtue is not hereditary. Thomas Paine
virtue needed greater
It is a great virtue to be needed. Greater, even, than being liked Susan Wiggs
virtue cardinals contempt
Contempt for failure is our cardinal virtue. Steven Pressfield
virtue virtuous offended
Will. Honeycomb calls these over-offended ladies the outrageously virtuous. Richard Steele
virtue interest paragon
I'm an entertainer. I don't go round saying I'm a paragon of virtue, so that is clearly not in the public interest. Steve Coogan
virtue
Freedom without virtue isn't freedom - it will eventually destroy a society. Rush Limbaugh