Virtue Quotes - Page 5

What, after all,is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean.

Tenderness is a virtue.

Men lose more conquests by their own awkwardness than by any virtue in the woman.

Virtue and decency are so nearly related that it is difficult to separate them from each other but in our imagination.

Recommend to your children to be virtuous, only the virtue can bring us happiness, not the money.

I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.

Religions don't own compassion; it is a human virtue.

Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.

One's virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune.

To become effective men of God, then, we must know and acknowledge that every grace and every virtue proceeds from God alone, and that not even a good thought can come from us except it be of Him.

There are few things more wearisome in a fairly fatiguing life than the monotonous repetition of a phrase which catches and holds the public fancy by virtue of its total lack of significance.

Tolerance is a cheap, low-grade parody of love. Tolerance is not a great virtue to aspire to. Love is much tougher and harder.

Christianity is reasonable in virtue of the impossibility of the contrary.

Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.

Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.

Virtue is the beauty of the soul.

A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.

"I pay my taxes," says somebody, as if that were an act of virtue instead of one of compulsion.

Virtue is voluntary, vice involuntary.

A virtuous and well-disposed person, like a good metal, the more he is fired, the more he is fined; the more he is opposed, the more he is approved: wrongs may well try him, and touch him, but cannot imprint in him any false stamp.

It isn't right to be obedient only when things go well; it is much harder to be a good, obedient soldier when things go badly and times are hard. Obedience and faith at such time is a virtue.

To teach virtue we must educate the emotions, and this means learning "what to feel" in the various circumstances that prompt them.

Blushing is the colour of virtue.

All of those who inhabit the world have a right to be here by virtue of their being here at all. To be here means you have a right to be here.

There is no virtue in poverty.