Quotes About Virtue

isn't patience a virtue?" "Absolutely not," Lady Danbury said emphatically, "and if you think so, you're less of a woman than I thought.

Poppy clasped her hands together, her smile enough to light the room. "It makes me so happy and I don't even know him." "My mother often says that it is the mark of a truly good person if she is happy for those she has never met.

I beat no one who did not deserve it

Of course, handsome is as handsome does, and so many well-formed people have ill-formed minds.

a vital component of charity and grace is the ability not to draw attention to one's possession of them." Penelope pursed her lips as she pushed Eloise

I'm a good guy. I've been a good guy. Innocent man. Always have been.

In avoiding the appearance of evil, I am not sure but I have sometimes unnecessarily deprived myself and others of innocent enjoyments.

Character is that quality of mind which makes truth-telling instinctive rather than strange.

Integrity reveals beauty.

I can't handle dishonesty; I like integrity in people and for me, that's very important in a man.

The people I've been exposed to have been people of amazing integrity.

A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.

You can't have integrity for breakfast, but try and keep it because it is perhaps the single most important word that defines not just writers but all human beings.

If I were asked to say the most important things that lead to a successful life, I should say that, first of all, was integrity - unimpeachable integrity.

Integrity of life is fame's best friend, which nobly, beyond death, shall crown in the end.

Characters with no integrity are just as interesting as characters with lots of integrity.

Integrity delivers better lives.

Intelligence, if it is clever in the direction of the better, is responsible for the greatest benefits of all.

Material interests are not the only guiding light.

we are feeble in love and imperfect in virtue,

Calling sin righteous and righteousness sin will always bear consequences.

If a man have not order within him He can not spread order about him; And if a man have not order within him His family will not act with due order; And if the prince have not order within him He can not put order in his dominions.

Good art however "immoral" is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can not be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.

Pride is concerned with who is right. Humility is concerned with what is right.