Virtue Quotes

When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice. Barbara Amiel

Liberty Virtue Some Vice Extent

Conservatives are often fond of La Rochefoucauld's famous aphorism that 'Hypocrisy is a tribute that vice pays to virtue,' and so tend to downplay hypocrisy as a sin. But in the marketplace of ideas they champion, hypocrisy may yet turn out to be the deadliest - or costliest - of sins. Bari Weiss

Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself. Baruch Spinoza

Reward Virtue Blessedness Itself

I do not believe in sex distinction in literature, law, politics, or trade - or that modesty and virtue are more becoming to women than to men, but wish we had more of it everywhere. Belva Lockwood

Politics Women Law Sex Men Wish Believe Virtue Everywhere Distinction More Had Trade Becoming Than Literature Modesty

If you believe, as I do, that the scope and range of presidential authority is great, that puts a lot of weight on the civic virtue and decency of the individual who holds the office. Benjamin Wittes

Great You Decency Believe Virtue Presidential Range Civic Individual Weight Puts Scope Lot Office Authority Holds Who

Cheapness is a great virtue. Bill Bryson

Great Virtue

I've always been a night person. There's a sense of virtue attached to getting up in the morning and doing things and starting the day, and I always felt bad for not being that person. Bill Skarsgard

Day Morning Sense Virtue Bad Attached Felt Always Doing Been Up Person Getting Being Things Night Starting

Perseverance is a virtue that cannot be understated. Bob Riley

Perseverance Virtue Understated Cannot

Generosity is a virtue, but unlimited generosity is a fast route to bankruptcy. Bret Stephens

Virtue Unlimited Generosity Bankruptcy Fast Route

He that is good, will infallibly become better, and he that is bad, will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue and time are three things that never stand still. Charles Caleb Colton

Time Good Better Will Three Become Virtue Worse Bad Never He Still Infallibly Vice Stand Certainly Things

Accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a lady, but a newspaper can always print a retraction. Charles Revson

Virtue Print Always Accuracy Lady Newspaper

As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue. Christian Nestell Bovee

Affliction Virtue Purify Does Wheat Separates

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. Christopher Meloni

It strikes me that golf's great virtue is that it gets you out of the house, away from everyday bothers, away from the endless round of looking for this, that and the other. Craig Brown

Great Me You Looking Other Everyday Virtue Strikes Out Bothers House Gets Endless Golf Round Away

Strength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity. David Hare

Strength Obedience Christianity Virtue Paganism

Beneficience removes evils, introduces the practice of virtue, and adds to general welfare and civilization. Dayananda Saraswati

Welfare Practice Virtue Adds Evils General Civilization General Welfare

I come from this macho Italian neighborhood. When I was thirteen, during those real vulnerable, impressionable years, and a boy starts becoming a man, to make that transition, and you start making decisions, and you start developing virtue and principles - I never made the transition. Dion DiMucci

You Man Made Starts Virtue Those Neighborhood Macho Never Developing Come Make Principles Vulnerable Boy Becoming Making Real Making Decisions Italian Years Decisions Transition Start Thirteen

In the 21st century, we face new and more intense global competition, spanning the ambitious and industrious economies from Latin America to Asia. To meet the challenge, Britain must rediscover and reward the lost virtue of hard work - a tried and tested route to individual success, national prosperity, and a fairer society. Dominic Raab

Success Work Hard Work Competition Prosperity Reward Challenge Face National Lost Society Meet Virtue Latin Latin America Must Tried More Individual Economies New Global Fairer Industrious Rediscover Tested Ambitious America Intense Asia Century Hard Route Britain

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