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Virtue Quotes

'24' and 20th Century Fox and Sky TV are not responsible for training the U.S. military. It is not our job to do. To me, this is almost as absurd as saying, 'The Sopranos' supports the mafia, and by virtue of that, HBO supports the mafia.'

Kiefer Sutherland

Sky Job Training Me Saying Virtue

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

Happiness Reward Virtue

Hypocrisy is the tribute that vice pays to virtue.

Grover Norquist

Hypocrisy Virtue Vice Tribute Pays

Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.

Women Men Virtue Pretend Must

The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.

Words Language Nothing Virtue Chief

Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.

Love Grace End Goodness True Virtue

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

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Love Virtue To Love Means Unlovable

More people are flattered into virtue than bullied out of vice.

Robert Smith Surtees

People Virtue More Out Vice Than

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

George Washington

Character Hope Man Enough Virtue

If you are a politician who styles yourself as a model of family virtue but are having a secret affair, you have no right to expect it to remain secret.

Family Yourself You Virtue Right

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

Time Virtue Bored Punctuality

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Live War Virtue Always State Combat

The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds, as it amuses the fancy, as it improves the understanding, and as it strengthens virtue.

History Understanding Three Virtue

Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue.

Friendship Man Virtue His

There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.

Happiness Mind Mercy Virtue Equal

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.

Future Support Doing Tax Virtue See

Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.

Dwell Virtue She Content Painful

I returned to Jerusalem, and it is by virtue of Jerusalem that I have written all that God has put into my heart and into my pen.

Shmuel Yosef Agnon

God Heart Pen Virtue Jerusalem Put

We speak of virtue, honour, reason; but our thought does not translate any one of these concepts into a substance.

Speak Thought Virtue Reason Concepts

A man's indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself actively to the job of gratitude.

Gratitude Job Man Virtue Begins He

The great virtue of the web, its ease of communication, has also become its Achilles' heel in that it has polluted the air with meaningless babble and egomaniacal drivel.

Communication Great Become Virtue

Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.

Miguel de Cervantes

World Virtue Modesty Greatest Almost

You want to make people laugh and by virtue of that please them, but when you're instructed to make people laugh and please them, you're too resentful to do it.

Sarah Silverman

People Laugh You Want Virtue Please

Change is terrifying for people who feel immune to it by virtue of status, divine appointment, or imagined irreplaceability.

Change People Feel Virtue Divine

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