Virtuous Quotes

There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

I do not know if she was virtuous, but she was ugly, and with a woman that is half the battle.

I think I am more attracted to characters with a subtext, whatever that is and they don't necessarily have to be virtuous, but they have to at least be human.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.

The decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands of which we found ourselves after the war is not a success. It is not intelligent. It is not beautiful. It is not just. It is not virtuous. And it doesn't deliver the goods.

There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.

Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.

The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.

I beg my Children to be just and virtuous, never to disgrace my name or theirs, and then they are out of fortune's power.

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

To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing.

We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even whether it was the result of good or evil motives.

One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.

All the rights secured to the citizens under the Constitution are worth nothing, and a mere bubble, except guaranteed to them by an independent and virtuous Judiciary.

There has never been any country at every moment so virtuous and so wise that it has not sometimes needed to be saved from itself.

Let no man under value the price of a virtuous woman's counsel.

Sexual harassment on the job is not a problem for virtuous women.

If venereal delight and the power of propagating the species were permitted only to the virtuous, it would make the world very good.

It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

The most virtuous women have something within them, something that is never chaste.

Because just as arms have no force outside if there is no counsel within a house, study is vain and counsel useless that is not put to virtuous effect when the time calls.

All the dark, malevolent Passions of the Soul are roused and exerted; its mild and amiable affections are suppressed; and with them, virtuous Principles are laid prostrate.

The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.

Be virtuous and you will be vicious.

What do I owe to my times, to my country, to my neighbors, to my friends? Such are the questions which a virtuous man ought often to ask himself.

Tutors who make youth learned do not always make them virtuous.

As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Most people are awaiting Virtual Reality; I'm awaiting virtuous reality.

Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire.