Virtue Quotes

The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.

Francis H. Bradley

Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

David Hare

To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness , and kindness.

Confucius

All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.

Iris Murdoch

Mona Lisa is the only beauty who went through history and retained her reputation.

Will Rogers

Virtue is reason which has become energy.

Friedrich Von Schlegel

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

Abraham Lincoln

Liberation from the tyranny of the body contributes to greatness, but just as much to greatness in sin as to greatness in virtue.

Bertrand Russell

Remain faithful to the earth, my brothers, with the power of your virtue. Let your gift-giving love and your knowledge serve the meaning of the earth. Thus I beg and beseech you. Do not let them fly away from earthly things and beat with their wings against eternal walls. Alas, there has always been so much virtue that has flown away. Lead back to the earth the virtue that flew away, as I do back to the body, back to life, that it may give the earth a meaning, a human meaning.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

C.S. Lewis

And be on they guard against the good and the just They would fain curcify those who devise their own virtue they hate the lonesome ones.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Virtue is insufficient temptation.

George Bernard Shaw

People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you've got to keep your feet warm.

Denis Diderot

When virtue has slept, it will arise again all the fresher.

Friedrich Nietzsche

[J]ene Entsagungen, die die Menschen alberner Weise Tugenden nennen [...]

Oscar Wilde

We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition.

Alexander Comfort

He who hates vice hates men.

John Morley

I have not a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming vices.

Mark Twain

Be virtuous and you will be eccentric.

Mark Twain

Virtue has never been as respectable as money.

Mark Twain