Virtue Quotes - Page 29
People who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so happy.
The Guardian, May 23, 1992.
Men's virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
John Dryden (1861). “Poetical Works”, p.231
A difficult form of virtue is to try in your own life to obey what you believe to be God's will.
Reg. v. Ramsey, 1 Cababe & Ellis' Q. B. D. Rep. 145, 1883.
Virtue and sense are one; and, trust me, still A faithless heart betrays the head unsound.
John Armstrong, John Dyer (1858). “The Poetical Works of Armstrong, Dyer, and Green: With Memoirs, and Critical Dissertations”, p.58
Any system of economics is bankrupt if it sees either value or virtue in unemployment.
1976 Democratic National Convention Acceptance Address, delivered 15 July, 1976
"Hamlet". Book by Jean-Francois Ducis, 1769.
1677 Phe'dre, act 4, sc.2.
Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.5
Jacques-Henri-Bernardin de Saint-Pierre (1818). “Paul and Virginia: Translated from the French of ...”, p.104
Power confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence.
J. William Fulbright (2011). “The Arrogance of Power”, p.16, Random House
Iain Pears (2003). “Dream of Scipio”, p.218, Penguin
Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice.
In L. Kronenberger 'The extraordinary Mr Wilkes' (1974) pt. 3, ch. 2 'The Ruling Class'
Honore de Balzac (1925). “The Physiology of Marriage”, p.66, Library of Alexandria
