Virtue Quotes - Page 51

I never was so rapid in my virtue but my vice kept up with me.

The broadest and most prevalent error requires the most disinterested virtue to sustain it.

For a guy who is always banging on about the masculine virtues, Nixon had this remarkable proclivity for very dainty gestures.

What makes Existence really nice Is Virtue--with a dash of Vice.

Peace is the natural state of man, war the temporary repeal of reason and virtue.

He was a man who understood the virtue of small things.

There is no strength that is greater than the strength of virtue. There is no other nobility equal to the nobility of virtue. There is no quality so becoming, no attire so attractive.

A truthmaker is an entity in virtue of which the proposition it makes true is true. And it is a necessary condition of being a truthmaker (though not a sufficient one) that a truthmaker necessitates the proposition it makes true.

Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.

As Angelo discovered in Measure for Measure, nothing corrupts like virtue.

A deed happens in a definite place at a definite time, but if it be sufficiently great and pregnant, its virtue radiates everywhere in time and space.

There is but on virtue--the eternal sacrifice of self.

I have the virtue of being still amongst the living. Some would say that is my only virtue.

The virtuous nothing fear but life with shame, And death's a pleasant road that leads to fame.

Virtues neglected then, adored become, And graces slighted, blossom on the tomb.

Virtue is not malicious; wrong done her Is righted even when men grant they err.

Bourgeois morality is largely a system of making cheap virtues a cloak for expensive vices.

A man has virtues enough if he deserves pardon for his faults on account of them.

Art is the one thing that's the universal virtue that you can have in any class.

Through true honestydeeply believethat all sentient-beings are one.That all beings have the sametrue nature,wisdom,virtue.

Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.

Charity is a very labour-intensive virtue.

For if there's no everlasting God, there's no such thing as virtue, and there's no need of it.

Virtue has her heroes too As well as Fame and Fortune.

To get into just those situations where sham virtues will not suffice, but rather where, as with the ropedancer on his rope, one either falls or stands--or gets down.