Virtue Quotes - Page 11

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

Magnify the virtues, minimize the faults.

All things happen by virtue of necessity.

Women's virtue is man's greatest invention.

What is the virtue and service of a book? Only to help me live less gingerly and shabbily.

Be the Worst You Can Be: Life's Too Long for Patience and Virtue

Freedom comes from seeing the ignorance of your critics and discovering the emptiness of their virtue.

Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.

Courage is the mother of all virtues because without it, you cannot consistently perform the others.

Hope is a horrible thing, you know. I don't know who decided to package hope as a virtue because it's not. It's a plague. Hope is like walking around with a fishhook in your mouth and somebody just keeps pulling it and pulling it.

Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.

Villainy wears many masks; none so dangerous as the mask of virtue.

Fear could never make virtue.

Love is an involuntary reaction to virtue.

By virtue of believing in a Supreme Being one embraces certain mysteries.

Those wretches who never have experienced the sweets of wisdom and virtue, but spend all their time in revels and debauches, sink downward day after day, and make their whole life one continued series of errors.

When we envy another, we make their virtue our vice.

There are not many beginnings but there is a single Beginning, prior to multitude. But if you were to say that the beginnings are plural apart from their partaking of the One, that statement would self-destruct. For, surely, these plural beginnings would be both alike, by virtue of their not partaking of the One, and not alike, by virtue of their not partaking of the One.

Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.

If the highest things are unknowable, then the highest capacity or virtue of man cannot be theoretical wisdom.

Cheerfulness is a very great help in fostering the virtue of charity. Cheerfulness itself is a virtue.

Justice is the first virtue of social institutions.

The hero draws inspiration from the virtue of his ancestors.

It is a duty we owe to posterity to see that our children shall know the virtues, and rise worthy of their sires.

Crime like virtue has its degrees; and timid innocence was never known to blossom suddenly into extreme license.