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Quotes About Virtuous

For Brutus is an honorable man;So are they all, all honorable men.
~ William Shakespeare
Quite unnecessary, either, ever to say pfui to him, for he was a most virtuous dog, protected from sin by absence of desires. What a contrast to his impassioned predecessor!
~ Elizabeth von Arnim
Gomez is a by-the-book cop. He's the only character not to break bad.
~ Steven Michael Quezada
I have so many positive points. I am not corrupt, I am competent.
~ Tamilisai Soundararajan
Just then, a demoness dressed in black leather with cheap makeup on her horns gave Rydstrom a measuring look as she passed, but he turned away. He was . . . curious about wicked females, always had been, but they weren't his type—no matter what Cadeon occasionally threw in his face when they fought. No, Rydstrom wanted his queen, his own fated female, a virtuous demoness to stand by his side and grace his bed.
~ Kresley Cole
Guide valiantly.Guide venerably.Guide valiantly.Guide virtuously.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
I've led a sheltered, virtuous life," she said.
~ Jennifer Egan
Your presence is a moral poison that would contaminate the most virtuous
~ Emily Bronte
The Founders warned that a free society depends on a virtuous and moral people. The current crisis reflects that their concerns were justified.
~ Ron Paul
Are you in earnest resolved never to barter your liberty for the lordly servitude of a court, but to live free, fearless, and independent? There seems to be one way to continue in that virtuous resolution; and perhaps but one. Never enter the place from whence so few have been able to return; never come within the circle of ambition; nor ever bring yourself into comparison with those masters of the earth who have already engrossed the attention of half mankind before you.
~ Adam Smith
The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. Verily this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose, so let me simply add that it's my very good honour to meet you and you may call me V.
~ Alan Moore
The myths about Hades and the gods, though they are pure invention, help to make men virtuous.
~ Diodorus Siculus
You're worse than decent. You're virtuous.
~ Eugene O neill
Christianity is absurd and impossible. Now, you know, it cannot be that! It may be untrue--I am not speaking of that now, even though I am perfectly certain that it is absolutely true--but it cannot be absurd so long as educated and virtuous people continue to hold it. To say that it is absurd is simple pride; it is to dismiss all who believe in it as not merely mistaken, but unintelligent as well---
~ ROBERT HUGH BENSON
You say Christianity is absurd and impossible. Now, you know, it cannot be that! It may be untrue—I am not speaking of that now, even though I am perfectly certain that it is absolutely true—but it cannot be absurd so long as educated and virtuous people continue to hold it. To say that it is absurd is simple pride; it is to dismiss all who believe in it as not merely mistaken, but unintelligent as well
~ ROBERT HUGH BENSON
Let's look at one such creative counterpart described many years ago in the book of Proverbs. There are many outstanding, godly women mentioned throughout the Bible, but this woman received special praise: Many daughters have done well, But you excel them all (Proverbs 31:29). Who was this woman who did more than Deborah, the military adviser, or Ruth, the woman of constancy, or Esther, the queen who risked her life for her people? She was a wife and mother like you and me!
~ Linda Dillow
Proverbs 31 is God's definition of Evelyn Roberts.
~ Kenneth Copeland
Mase was never a filthy artist.
~ Mase
I am wholesome.
~ Andrea Corr
Tony is just a good, wholesome character.
~ Thurl Ravenscroft
When the venerable pontiff's hour has come, a Roman of good age shall be elected, of whom it will be said that he dishonored his throne though he held it long, with virtuous acts.
~ Nostradamus
A saint is not a virtuous soul, but an empty one. He—or she—freely gives the gift of their will to their god. And in renouncing action, makes action possible.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
Late in the 16th centurt, William Cecil's son, Thomas reortedthat Philip had said that 'whatever he suffered from Queen Elizabeth was the judgement of God because, being married to Queen Elizabeth, whom he though a most virtuous and good lady, yet in the fancy of love he could not affect her; but as for the Lady Elizabeth; he was enamored of her, being a fair and beautiful woman.
~ Alison Weir
Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny is but the phantom we invoke to silence the one and dethrone the other.
~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton