Virtue Quotes

Fidelity - a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.

My whole mood or sense can change by virtue of the music that I'm listening to. It really does affect me on a visceral and emotional level.

The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication.

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

Blushing is the color of virtue.

The career of a writer is comparable to that of a woman of easy virtue. You write first for pleasure, later for the pleasure of others and finally for money.

To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.

Of the unjust rights which in virtue of this ceremony an iniquitous law gives me over the person and property of another, I cannot legally, but I can morally, divest myself.

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie.

Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.

If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation?

In such a state, humility is the virtue of men, and their only defense; to walk humbly with God, never doubting, whatever befall, that His will is good, and that His law is right.

Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.

Feminine virtue is nothing but a convenient masculine invention.

A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.

What's vice today may be virtue, tomorrow.

God has been very good to me, for I never dwell upon anything wrong which a person has done, so as to remember it afterwards. If I do remember it, I always see some other virtue in that person.

The Menzies Government, by its participation in the plans for the development of other nations, can see the virtue of planning for them but apparently cannot see the virtue of a plan for Australia.

Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.

Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

The war was a mirror; it reflected man's every virtue and every vice, and if you looked closely, like an artist at his drawings, it showed up both with unusual clarity.

Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.

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.

Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.

You can't have virtue without sin. What I'm after is having my characters' virtues defined by how they operate in a very sinful environment. That's how you test people.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Honor is the reward of virtue.