Virtue Quotes - Page 19

Truth is not a virtue, but a passion. It is never charitable.

Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction.

So our virtues lie in the interpretation of the time

The rarer action is in virtue than in vengeance.

Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning.

We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.

To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.

Tact is one of the first of mental virtues, the absence of which is frequently fatal to the best of talents. Without denying that it is a talent of itself, it will suffice if we admit that it supplies the place of many talents.

You smile with pomp and rigor, you talk of benevolence and virtue; I act with benevolence and virtue and get murdered time after time.

Wrong people are wrong not because of their faults but because of their presumed virtues.

Virtue debases itself in justifying itself.

Virtue between men is a commerce of good actions: he who has no part in this commerce must not be reckoned.

Virtue is not hereditary.

A temperate anger has virtue in it.

Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.

I say that virtue is really all about enjoying yourself, living fully; but of course it is far from obvious what living fully actually means.

In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue.

We are, in the end, a sum of our parts, and when the body fails, all the virtues we hold dear go with it.

What a paragon of virtue you are, gunslinger!" the man in black laughed.

Humility is the beginning virtue of all exaltation.

The virtue of hope is an orientation of the soul towards a transformation after which it will be wholly and exclusively love.

I returned to Jerusalem, and it is by virtue of Jerusalem that I have written all that God has put into my heart and into my pen.

Virtue hath no virtue if it be not impugned; then appeareth how great it is, of what value and power it is, when by patience it approveth what it works.

Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

Virtue is that perfect good, which is the complement of a happy life; the only immortal thing that belongs to mortality.