116 quotes found
“The virtue of a man ought to be measured not by his extraordinary exertions, but by his every-day conduct.”
“Never sacrifice whats right for whats convenient.”
“Courage is chief among virtues. For when any virtue is challenged, it is courage alone that can restore virtue.”
“We understand and recognize what is good, but we do not labor to bring it to fulfillment, some of us out of laziness, some because we put something else, some pleasure, before virtue--and there are...”
“It is said a virtuous woman is worth more than rubies. But I believe many men discover the hard way that virtue, like beauty, is often in the eye of the beholder.”
“The weakest of all weak things is a virtue which has not been tested in the fire.”
“If being alive is not a virtue, then there is little virtue in virtue.”
“You instinctively display the greatest virtue, or rather the chief defect, of us eccentric Parisians- that is, you assume the vices you have not, and conceal the virtues you possess.”
“Virtue in a woman is like pepper in the soup. A little makes for a nice seasoning. Butoverdo it, and no one wants very much of you.”
“No: a poor man who is ungrateful, unthrifty, discontented and rebellious, is probably a real personality, and has much in him...As for the virtuous poor...they have made private terms with the enem...”
“Of all fragrances, the sweetest is that of virtue.”
“Love means to love that which is unlovable or it is no virtue at all. ”
“Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.”
“Virtue can only flourish among equals.”
“Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.”
“Saudi Arabia is a puritanical state that claims a monopoly of wisdom and virtue.”
“There is no sanctuary of virtue like home.”
“When virtue has slept she will get up more refreshed.”
“Purity is obscurity.”
“I know myself too well to believe in pure virtue.”
