Quotes About Virtue

Which would you rather be if you had the choice--divinely beautiful or dazzlingly clever or angelically good?

If you've brains it's better than beauty - brains last, beauty doesn't.

It would be so much easier to be good if one's hair was handsome auburn, don't you think?

Some people are naturally good, you know, and others are not. I'm one of the others.

People who don't like cats, said Valancy, attacking her dessert with a relish, always seem to think that there is some peculiar virtue in not liking them.

Of course it's better to be good. I know it is but it's sometimes so hard to believe a thing even when you know it

Every one has some fault but also some virtue … something that distinguishes it from all the others … gives it a personality. I

Perhaps she had not succeeded in inspiring any wonderful ambitions in her pupils, but she had taught them, more by her own sweet personality than by all her careful precepts, that it was good and necessary in the years that were before them to live their lives finely and graciously, holding fast to truth and courtesy and kindness, keeping aloof from all that savored of falsehood and meanness and vulgarity.

People who don't like cats always seem to think that there is some peculiar virtue in not liking them.

Bana öyle geliyor ki bu dünyada öyle ya da böyle iyi olmaktan kurtulam?yorsun. Sadece iyi olmak zorundas?n.

People who don't like cats always seem to think there is some peculiar virtue in not liking them.

She is good and smart, which is better than being pretty.

Oh, of course he's good, agreed Anne. But he doesn't seem to get any comfort out of it. If I could be good I'd dance and sing all day because I was glad of it.

is ever so much easier to be good if your clothes are fashionable.

The number of those who have nothing to recommend them and of those in whom nothing but good can be found is probably equal

If there is a defining characteristic of a man as opposed to a boy, maybe it's patience.

Extremism in defense of virtue is no vice.

The man turned his blue eyes on July for a moment. 'Why, son, I'm fine,' he said. 'You're the one in trouble. I can see you carry a weight on your heart. You're hurrying along to do something you may not want to do. I see by your badge that you're a lawman. But the crimes the law can understand are not the worst crimes. I have often sinned worse than the murderer, and yet I try to live in virtue.

This is the thing about good and evil. They aren't so far apart—and they often start from the same valiant

Well, Caroline, it's pleasant to be with a crowd of people all trying to do the right thing, same as we are.

As if all that weren't enough, factor in the whole tedious millenial saga of female virtue, modesty, shame, repression, male ineptitude...in short, a cruel combo of anatomical inheritance and sexual inhibition for the gal set; a nature-culture one-two punch, right to the female pleasure principle.

Patience is a virtue, but there comes a moment when you must stop being patient and take the day by the throat and shake it. If it fights back; fine. I'd rather end up bloody at the end of the day, then unhurt with no progress made, no knowledge gained. I'd rather have a no, then nothing. I'd forgotten that about myself.

I worry that when you start quoting Machiavelli to justify your actions, you have ceased to be one of the good guys. No, quoting Nietzsche does that. Machiavelli is just cool.

The powerless are sometimes only good because they are not strong enough to be evil