Virtuous Quotes

See also Core English Vocabulary (V) Quotes

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.

- Clive Owen

The vicious circle has been shattered. Canadians now enjoy the benefits of the virtuous circle.

- Paul Martin

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

- Phyllis Schlafly

. . . (today) we accept, indeed regard as a platitude, an idea that Aristotle rejected, that someone can have one virtue while lacking others . For Aristotle, as for Socrates, practical reason required the dispositions of action and feeling to be harmonized; if any disposition was properly to count as a virtue, it had to be part of a rational structure that included all the virtues. This is quite different from our assumption (in the modern world) that these kinds of virtuous disposition are enough like other psychological characteristics to explain how one person can, so to speak, do better in one area than another. . . . (today) we do not believe in the unity of the virtues.

- Bernard Williams

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

- George Chapman

There`s a whiff of the lynch mob or the lemming migration about any overlarge concentration of like-thinking individuals, no matter how virtuous their cause.

- P.J. O'Rourke

Rinsing out tuna cans and tying up newspapers may make you feel virtuous, but recycling could be America`s most wasteful activity.

- John Tierney

For a good cause, wrongdoing is virtuous.

- Adm James D. Watkins

Property left to a child may soon be lost; but the inheritance of virtue--a good name an unblemished reputation--will abide forever. If those who are toiling for wealth to leave their children, would but take half the pains to secure for them virtuous habits, how much more serviceable would they be. The largest property may be wrested from a child, but virtue will stand by him to the last.

- Agnes Allen

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.

- Albert Low

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

- Alberto Korda

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.

- Alexander Silbiger

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.

- Alice Rossi

He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his country. There is seldom an instance of a man guilty of betraying his country, who had not before lost the feeling of moral obligations in his private connections.

- Andrea Domingo

It is obvious that different individuals require different things to live good, healthy, and virtuous lives.

- Andrew Forman

To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked.

- Andrew Jennings

Everybody should practice simple and virtuous living . They should never seek recourse to manipulative tendencies.

- Barry Cooper

The need for prostitution arises from the fact that many men are either unmarried or away from their wives on journeys, that such men are not content to remain continent, and that in a conventionally virtuous community they do not find respectable women.

- Bertrand Russell

A virtuous heretic shall be saved before a wicked Christian

- Benjamin Franklin

Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens. They are the most vigorous, the most independant, the most virtuous, and they are tied to their country and wedded to it's liberty and interests by the most lasting bands

- Thomas Jefferson

" Ah, this is the constitution," he said. "Now, mark my words. So long as we are a young and virtuous people, this instument will bind us together in mutual interests, mutual welfare, and mutual happiness. But when we become old and corrupt, it will bind no longer."

- Alexander Hamilton

Socialism: nothing more than the theory that the slave is always more virtuous than his master

- Henry Louis Mencken

each candidate behaved well in the hope of being judged worthy of election. However, this system was disastrous when the city had become corrupt. For then it was not the most virtuous but the most powerful who stood for election, and the weak, even if virtuous, were too frightened to run for office.

- Niccolo Machiavelli

Flirting is the sin of the virtuous and the virtue of the sinful.

- Paul Bourget