116 quotes found
“I see your point. It irks you to see anyone at all who is able to work permitted to live without working. But why do you consider work a virtue?”
“Those who have wisdom have all:Fools with all have nothing.”
“Virtue is harder to be got than knowledge of the world; and, if lost in a young man, is seldom recovered.”
“May I never, I say, become that abnormal, merciless animal, that deformed monstrosity - a virtuous woman.”
“Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder. ”
“To be able under all circumstances to practice five things constitutes perfect virtue; these five things are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness.”
“Your stockings prove your virtues.Be certain they are clean and free of tears.”
“He cannot "tempt" to virtue as we do to vice. He wants them to learn to walk and must therefore take away His hand; and if only the will to walk is really there He is pleased even with their stumbles.”
“Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so.”
“I have observed that gentlemen suppose that the general legislature will do every thing mischievous they possibly can, and that they will omit to do every thing good which they are authorized to do...”
“Virtue alone is happiness; all elseIs else, and without praise.”
“Every good quality runs into a defect; economy borders on avarice, the generous are not far from the prodigal, the brave man is close to the bully; he who is very pious is slightly sanctimonious; t...”
“Virtue has need of limits.”
“Oskar showed that virtue emerged where it would, and the sort of churchy observance bishops called for was not a guarantee of genuine humanity in a person.”
“[On the virtuous man] "He combines the highest, lowest and middle chords in complete harmony within himself.”
“I prefer a loose woman to a selfish one and a wanton to a fool.”
“When virtue has slept it will arise more vigorous.”
“They said there was no rest for the wicked. In fact, there was rest neither for the virtuous nor the wicked, nor for guys like Billy, who were uncommitted regarding the whole idea of virtue versus ...”
“Virtue - to be good and just -Every heart, when sifted well,Is a clot of warmer dust,Mix'd with cunning sparks of hell.- The Vision of Sin”
“Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.”
