And there's one rare strange virtue in their speeches,
The secret of their mastery - they are short.
Fitz-Greene HalleckThe greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.
AristotleEvery day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life - and if Virtue is not its own reward I don't know any other stipend annexed to it.
Lord ByronOne of the most subtle pieces of propaganda around in the cause of sense, humility and virtue [on The Simpsons]
Rowan WilliamsThere is in us more of the appearance of sense and virtue than of the reality.
Marguerite De ValoisI would remind you that extremism in the defence of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue!
Barry GoldwaterThere are nine orders of angels, to wit, angels, archangels, virtues, powers, principalities, dominations, thrones, cherubim, and seraphim
Billy GrahamHowever great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue. [Thus speaks the great philosopher]
Wilhelm Von HumboldtWhen we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.
Thomas PaineIf you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues
Edward Bulwer-LyttonModesty and unselfishness - these are the virtues which men praise - and pass by.
Andre MauroisPunctuality is the virtue of the bored.
Evelyn WaughWhile selfishness joins hands with no one of the virtues, benevolence is allied to them all
Oliver GoldsmithExtremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
Barry GoldwaterTolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.
Gilbert Keith ChestertonWhen women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.
Honore De BalzacCome, fair repentance, daughter of the skies! Soft harbinger of soon returning virtue; The weeping messenger of grace from heaven.
Sir Thomas BrowneOf all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.
Francis BaconThe evils we experience flow from the excess of democracy. The people do not want virtue, but are dupes of pretended patriots.
Elbridge GerryAccuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction.
Adlai E StevensonAffliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning.
Francis AtterburyVirtue alone has majesty in death.
Edward YoungA laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
QuintilianIf virtue precede us every step will be safe.
SenecaThere is no virtue can be sooner missed or later welcomed; it begins the rest, and sets them all in order
Thomas MiddletonA large part of Christian virtue consists in right habits.
William PaleyThe virtue lies
In the struggle, not the prize
Richard Monckton MilnesChoose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.
George Bernard ShawOur virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.
Nikola TeslaThe torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by wine.
Ralph Waldo EmersonModesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a real confession of the deficiency it indicates. He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.
William HazlittFriendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority
MenciusA noble birth and fortune, though they make not a bad man good, yet they are a real advantage to a worthy one and place his virtues in a fairer light
George LilloWhat is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone
Edward Bulwer-LyttonHypocrisy is the homage which vice renders to virtue
Duc De La RochefoucauldThough ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.
Hosea BallouCertainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.
Francis BaconFrugality is the mother of all virtues.
JustinianLife has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Paul GauguinA thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
Thomas PaineThough ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.
QuintilianProsperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
TacitusThose who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.
AristotleTeach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
Sir Walter ScottThe virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking.
Brooks AndersonVice deceives us when dressed in the garb of virtue
JuvenalConfidence in another man's virtue is no slight evidence of a man's own
MontaigneModesty is a vastly overrated virtue.
GalbraithA New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue.
Edith WhartonCrimes, like virtues, are their own rewards
George Farquhar
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