Best 1793 quotes in «virtue quotes» category

Birth is nothing where virtue is not

Black is not a vice. Nor is segregation a virtue.

Blushing is the colour of virtue.

Blind submission in women is considered a virtue, while submission to wrong is itself wrong, and resistance to wrong is virtue alike in women as in man.

Both tolerance and respect are empty virtues until we actually understand whatever it is we are supposed to be tolerating or respecting.

Bourgeois morality is largely a system of making cheap virtues a cloak for expensive vices.

Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.

But virtue never will be mov'd, Though lewdness court it in a shape of heaven.

Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.

But everyone's an expert with the virtue of hindsight . . . .

But what virtue I do have is in me and of me. Men deny the good that comes from themselves, calling it God. So do they with their won evil, calling it the Devil.

...But why discourse Upon the Virtues of the Horse? They are too numerous to tell Save when you have a Horse to Sell.

Bravery is a requisite virtue because life demands it.

By poeticizing love, we imagine in those we love virtues that they often do not possess; this then becomes the source of constant mistakes and constant distress.

By virtue of Creation, and still more the Incarnation, nothing here below is profane for those who know how to see.

But St. Aubert had too much good sense to prefer a charm to a virtue.

By virtue of being born to humanity, every human being has a right to the development and fulfillment of his potentialities as a human being.

Calamity is virtue's opportunity.

By virtue of believing in a Supreme Being one embraces certain mysteries.

By virtue of depression, we recall those misdeeds we buried in the depths of our memory. Depression exhumes our shames.

Can it be that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a nation with its virtue?

Can't I another's face commend, Or to her virtues be a friend, But instantly your forehead louers, As if her merit lessen'd yours?

Capitalism inevitably and by virtue of the very logic of its civilization creates, educates and subsidizes a vested interest in social unrest.

Can it be, that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a Nation with its virtue? The experiment, at least, is recommended by every sentiment which ennobles human Nature. Alas! is it rendered impossible by its vices?

Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.

Charity is a very labour-intensive virtue.

Chastity, like honesty, is a civic as well as a personal virtue. When a society loses chastity, it begins to destroy itself.

By the ancients, courage was regarded as practically the main part of virtue; by us, though I hope we are not less brave, purity is so regarded now.

Chastity is a virtue with some, but with many it is almost a vice.

Cheapness is a great virtue.

Chastity is oftener owing to diffidence and shame, than to fortitude of reason or virtue.

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.

Cheerfulness is among the most laudable virtues. It gains you the good will and friendship of others. It blesses those who practice it and those upon whom it is bestowed.

Circumstances are seldom right. You never have the capacities, the strength, the wisdom, the virtue you ought to have. You must always do with less than you need in a situation vastly different from what you would have chosen...

Cheerfulness is a very great help in fostering the virtue of charity. Cheerfulness itself is a virtue.

Christianity is reasonable in virtue of the impossibility of the contrary.

Common tyrants, and public oppressors, are not intitled to obedience from their subjects, by virtue of any thing here laid down by the inspired apostle.

Colm Feore. Newspaper column, Norwegian water. Column of steel, column of virtue, just for God's sake, Colm.

Competition is such a virtue, and everybody's so busy competing, they have no time for compassion.

Compliment others on the virtues they have; and they're not half as pleased as being complimented for the ones they don't have.

Compassion is not a popular virtue

Cleanliness in the cat world is usually a virtue put above godliness.

Conscience is the sentinel of virtue.

Conscience is a great moralist inside us with a stick in its hand. It is a whip of virtue which oppresses us unmercifully when we do wrong.

Conscience is the virtue of the observers not the agents of action

Consistency is a virtue for trains.

Consistency is the foundation of virtue.

Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.

Consistency is the most overrated of all human virtues... I'm someone who changes his mind all the time.

Contempt for failure is our cardinal virtue.