I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or accessories that are not practical.
Giorgio ArmaniDisobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.
George Bernard ShawMy general thesis was that Lust should be shifted from the category of Sin to that of Virtue. [on giving a lecture on Lust, one of the Seven Deadly Sins]
Simon BlackburnSometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowVirtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.
Edgar Watson HoweThe virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
AristotleOld age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.
Ira GershwinDelicacy is the genuine tint of virtue.
Marguerite De ValoisCreative thinking may mean simply the realisation that there's no particular virtue in doing things the way they always have been done.
Rudolf FleschStrength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity.
David HarePeace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
Benedict SpinozaOf all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.
AristotleSilence is the virtue of fools.
Francis BaconPeople who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so happy.
GalbraithEvery act of virtue is an ingredient unto reward.
Bishop Jeremy TaylorThe evils we experience flow from the excess of democracy. The people do not want virtue, but are dupes of pretended patriots.
Elbridge GerryThe three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris.
Larry WallBeauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.
George BancroftMen are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
VoltaireThough a hundred crooked paths may conduct to a temporary success, the one plain and straight path of public and private virtue can alone lead to a pure and lasting fame and the blessings of posterity
Edward EverettOur virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.
Nikola TeslaRecommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.
Ludwig Van BeethovenIf you can walk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!
(Rewards and Fairies 1910, 'If-')
Rudyard KiplingWhat 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-LyttonModesty and unselfishness - these are the virtues which men praise - and pass by.
Andre MauroisVirtues are acquired through endeavour, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts.
NagarjunaCourage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.
Maya AngelouThose 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.
AristotleVirtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.
Honore De BalzacWhile selfishness joins hands with no one of the virtues, benevolence is allied to them all
Oliver GoldsmithLove is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another.
Ayn RandModeration in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
Thomas PaineDependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
Thomas JeffersonEverybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, use that something to support their own existence.
Frank ZappaSo much of our lives is given over to the consideration of our imperfections that there is no time to improve our imaginary virtues. The truth is we only perfect our vices, and man is a worse creature when he dies than he was when he was born.
Edward DahlbergHuman freedom is realised in the adoption of humanity as an end in itself, for the one thing that no-one can be compelled to do by another is to adopt a particular end. - 'Metaphysical Principles of Virtue'
Imannuel KantHumility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.
Saint AugustineTo be good and disagreeable is high treason against the royalty of virtue
Hannah MoreVirtue is the roughest way, but proves at night a bed of down
Sir Henry WottonEvery 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 ByronAffliction is the school in which great virtues are acquired, in which great characters are formed.
Hannah MoreBlushing is the colour of virtue
Matthew HenryThere is in us more of the appearance of sense and virtue than of the reality.
Marguerite De ValoisConquest is the missionary of valoor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world.
Walter BagehotWhat's true beauty but fair virtue's face, - virtue made visible in outward grace
Edward YoungThe happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
Marcus AureliusHumility is a virtue, and it is a virtue innate in guests.
Max BeerbohmOne path alone leads to a life of peace: The path of virtue.
JuvenalI hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.
George WashingtonLife 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 Gauguin
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