Virtue Quotes
78 quotations about Virtue
All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.
The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.
Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.
To be innocent is to be not guilty; but to be virtuous is to overcome our evil inclinations.
The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.
Virtuous and vicious everyone must be; few in extremes, but all in degree.
With virtue you can't be entirely poor; without virtue you can't really be rich.
Sell not virtue to purchase wealth.
Virtue is harmony.
Mona Lisa is the only beauty who went through history and retained her reputation.
Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.
Virtue is reason which has become energy.
Assume a virtue if you have it not.
Men's evil manners live in brass, their virtues we write in water.
Better keep yourself clean and bright. You are the window through which you must see the world.
Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.
What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?
That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as another s. We see so much only as we possess.
There are nine hundred and ninety-nine patrons of virtue to one virtuous man.
Be virtuous and you will be eccentric.
Virtue has never been as respectable as money.
Temperance and labor are the two best virtues. Labor whets the appetite, temperance curbs it.
Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.
Even virtue is fairer when it appears in a beautiful person.
Few people have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
Authors on Virtue
Abigail Adams
Joseph Addison
Minna Antrim
Aristotle
Francis Bacon
Natalie Clifford Barney
Christian Nevell Bovee
Francis H. Bradley
Edmund Burke
George Bush
Albert Camus
Thomas Carlyle
Chinese Proverb
Winston Churchill
Marcus T. Cicero
Alexander Comfort
Confucius
Edward Dahlberg
Ralph Waldo Emerson
English Proverb