383 Virtue Quotes for You to Enjoy

Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning. William S. Burroughs

Happiness You Happy Virtue Simply Function By-Product

Feminine virtue is nothing but a convenient masculine invention. Ninon de L'Enclos

Invention Nothing Virtue Masculine Feminine Convenient

Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Virtue Would Vanity Go Did Far Company Keep

I think the virtue I prize above all others is curiosity. If you look really hard at almost anybody, and try to see why they're doing what they're doing, taking a dig at them ceases to be what you want to do even if you hate them. A. S. Byatt

I am not sure how much good is done by moralising about fairy tales. This can be unsubtle - telling children that virtue will be rewarded, when in fact it is mostly simply the fact of being the central character that ensures a favourable outcome. Fairy tales are not, on the whole, parables. A. S. Byatt

Good Character Will Virtue Telling Outcome Favourable About Fact Simply Tales Mostly Fairy Sure Fairy Tales How Am How Much Done Rewarded Being Children In Fact Central Much Whole

I could enjoy the life that I had by virtue of the educational attainment that my grandparents and parents had pursued. Education was always incredibly valued in our family. Adam Braun

Life Education Family Parents Enjoy Incredibly Virtue Our Valued Could Pursued Attainment Had Always Educational Grandparents

By virtue of our private property society, we have disconnected individuals from the land. We have put them in high rises and asked them to live their lives in urban settings, disconnected from the land. Adam Dell

Property Live Society Settings Virtue Our High Rises Put Individuals Disconnected Private Private Property Urban Them Land Asked Lives

There are as many attitudes to cooking as there are people cooking, of course, but I do think that cooking guys tend - I am a guilty party here - to take, or get, undue credit for domestic virtue, when in truth cooking is the most painless and, in its ways, ostentatious of the domestic chores. Adam Gopnik

Procrastinating is a vice when it comes to productivity, but it can be a virtue for creativity. Adam Grant

Creativity Virtue Vice Productivity

Authenticity is a virtue. But just as you can have too little authenticity, you can also have too much. Adam Grant

You Too Much Too Virtue Also Authenticity Just Little Much

Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire. Adela Florence Nicolson

Virtue Arises Devotion Often Desire

Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction. Adlai Stevenson I

Virtue Print Always Accuracy Lady Newspaper

Virtue is its own reward. We only invented concepts like heaven and hell to describe how we feel. We don't feel good doing bad and it's nice to help someone. Alain de Botton

Good Feel Good Reward Own Hell Nice Virtue Bad Someone Invented Only Feel Like Concepts How Doing Heaven Help Describe

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

Virtue More Chastity Come Malnutrition Than May Realize Eventually

Hollywood wants its heroes to be virtuous, but it defines virtue in a way that excludes any action that is self-interested. If virtue means putting others ahead of self, then it's clear that most people, let alone most capitalists, aren't very virtuous. Alex Tabarrok

Many people think that virtue consists of severity towards others. Alphonse Karr

People Think Others Virtue Severity Consists Towards Many

Democrats who see virtue in the estate tax are doing the equivalent of aborting future enterprises. They deprive businesses of oxygen with their support for capital gains taxes and disregard for contracts. Amity Shlaes

One of my clearest impressions about India as a child was that my parents' stories would have been impossible had they stayed. Of course, such a vision was self-serving, for it made a virtue of our displacement. Anand Giridharadas

Vision Impossible Made Parents Virtue Our Would India Stayed About Had Clearest Course Been Self-Serving Impressions Child Stories Displacement

Virtue comes by nature, learning, and practice, and thanks to virtue, all of the aforesaid may deserve approval. Apollonius of Tyana

Nature Learning Practice Thanks Virtue Approval May Deserve

The beauty of the horror genre is that you can smuggle in these harder stories, and the genre comes with certain demands, but mostly you need to find the catharsis in whatever story you're telling. What may be seen as a deterrent for audiences in one genre suddenly becomes a virtue in another genre. Ari Aster

You Seen Beauty Whatever Virtue Telling Find Horror Deterrent Demands Catharsis Genre Mostly Another Becomes Audiences Smuggle May Stories Story Certain Suddenly Harder Need

The virtue of paganism was strength; the virtue of Christianity is obedience. Augustus Hare

Strength Obedience Christianity Virtue Paganism

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