Virtue Quotes

Vice stirs up war, virtue fights.

Marquis De Vauvenargues

If we've learned anything in the past quarter century, it is that we cannot federalize virtue.

George Bush

Virtue is harmony.

Pythagoras

Men who do not forgive women their little faults will never enjoy their great virtues.

Kahlil Gibran

Tobacco and alcohol, delicious fathers of abiding friendships and fertile reveries.

Luis Bunuel

I haven't a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming petty vices whatsoever.

Mark Twain

The virtue in most request is conformity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our virtues, or what we have always esteemed such, into the same pit that has consumed our grosser vices.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A weed is a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.

Adam Smith

I used to be snow white, but I drifted.

Mae West

Virtue has its own reward, but no sales at the box office.

Mae West

The time is always right to do what is right.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

The virtue of some people consists wholly in condemning the vices in others.

Herbert Samuel

There are in every man, always, two simultaneous allegiances, one to God, the other to Satan. Invocation of God, or Spirituality, is a desire to climb higher; that of Satan, or animality, is delight in descent.

Charles Baudelaire

Alas, human vices, however horrible one might imagine them to be, contain the proof (were it only in their infinite expansion) of man's longing for the infinite; but it is a longing that often takes the wrong route. It is my belief that the reason behind all culpable excesses lies in this depravation of the sense of the infinite.

Charles Baudelaire

Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderated use rather than total abstinence.

Samuel Butler

Rare virtues are like rare plants or animals, things that have not been able to hold their own in the world. A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner but more durable metal.

Samuel Butler

Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.

Samuel Butler