Virtue Quotes

• "Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious."
  By: Oscar Wilde
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• "It is easy enough to be virtuous When nothing tempts you to stray; When without or within No voice of sin Is luring your soul away. But it is only a negative virtue until it is tried by fire. For the soul that is worth the treasures of the earth is the soul that resists desire."
  By: Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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• "True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason."
  By: Alfred North Whitehead
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• "A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue."
  By: Edith Wharton
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• "Virtue has its own reward, but no sales at the box office."
  By: Mae West
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• "Few people have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder."
  By: George Washington
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• "It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue."
  By: Voltaire French writer and philosopher (ps. of François Marie Arouet) (1694-1778)
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• "It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge."
  By: Voltaire French writer and philosopher (ps. of François Marie Arouet) (1694-1778)
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• "The only virtue a character needs to possess between hardcovers, even if he bears a real person's name, is vitality: if he comes to life in our imaginations, he passes the test."
  By: Stephen Vizinczey
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• "Consistency is a virtue for trains: what we want from a philosopher is insights, whether he comes by them consistently or not."
  By: Stephen Vizinczey
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• "Even virtue is fairer when it appears in a beautiful person."
  By: Virgil
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• "Virtue has never been as respectable as money."
  By: Mark Twain
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• "A crime persevered in a thousand centuries ceases to be a crime, and becomes a virtue. This is the law of custom, and custom supersedes all other forms of law."
  By: Mark Twain
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• "Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge."
  By: James Thurber
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• "What men call social virtues, good fellowship, is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter, which lie close together to keep each other warm."
  By: Henry David Thoreau
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• "We cannot well do without our sins; they are the highway of our virtue."
  By: Henry David Thoreau
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