Quotes About Virtue

Accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a lady, but a newspaper can always print a retraction.

For me, the Immaculate Conception is the feast of 'passive action,' the action that functions simply by the transmission through us of divine energy. Purity, in spite of outward appearances, is essentially an active virtue, because it concentrates God in us and on those who are subject to our influence.

To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.

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.

Conscience is the sentinel of virtue.

Virtue is not photogenic, so I liked playing bad guys. But, whenever I played a bad guy, I tried to find something good in him, and that kept my contact with the audience.

For me, patience is a virtue and the result is much more important than the road.

A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.

I do believe in Christ, but I would not hold myself up as any paragon of virtue at all - far from it, really.

Superior virtue must be the fruit of superior intelligence.

The beauty of the horror genre is that you can smuggle in these harder stories, and the genre comes with certain demands, but mostly you need to find the catharsis in whatever story you're telling. What may be seen as a deterrent for audiences in one genre suddenly becomes a virtue in another genre.

Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase are fruits of innocence and blessedness.

Authenticity is a virtue. But just as you can have too little authenticity, you can also have too much.

Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie.

A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction.

Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it.

As sisters in Zion, we can be obstacles to the adversary's conspiracy against families and virtue.

Well may your heart believe the truths I tell; 'Tis virtue makes the bliss, where'er we dwell.

The virtue of privacy is one that must be protected in matters that are intimate and within one's own family.

However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue.

Virtue could see to do what Virtue would by her own radiant light, though sun and moon where in the flat sea sunk.

Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.

Plato said that virtue has no master. If a person does not honor this principle and rejoice in it, but is purchasable for money, he creates many masters for himself.