Virtue Quotes

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.

Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.

Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.

There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.

Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.

It seems to me that many writers, by virtue of environments of culture, art and education, slip into writing because of their environments.

Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.

I want to present interesting stories that don't qualify themselves just by virtue of their ethnographic type.

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Who hath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue.

In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa.

Many people think that virtue consists of severity towards others.

Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.

The arts and a belief in the values of the civil rights movement, in the overwhelming virtue of diversity, these were our religion. My parents worshipped those ideals.

Saudi Arabia is a puritanical state that claims a monopoly of wisdom and virtue.

For, when with beauty we can virtue join, We paint the semblance of a form divine.

Virtue is the truest nobility.

What other nations call religious toleration, we call religious rights. They are not exercised in virtue of governmental indulgence, but as rights, of which government cannot deprive any portion of citizens, however small.

If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.

I am and have always been a strong proponent of public education. But by the virtue of its very nature - publicly funded schools cannot offer the type of spiritual education that Catholic schools have long provided.

All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force... We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter.

Every act of virtue is an ingredient unto reward.

Virtue is the fount whence honour springs.

I didn't get into acting to be a public service announcer or an advocate and yet, by virtue of this show and how we handle the subject matter that we've been given, that's kind of how it's evolved in certain ways.

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

Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault. It must speak, and speak immediately, while the echoes of wonder, the claims of triumph and the signs of horror are still in the air.

Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life - and if Virtue is not its own reward I don't know any other stipend annexed to it.