1,046 Quotes About Virtue

Jene Entsagungen, die die Menschen alberner Weise Tugenden nennen

What can promote innocent mirth, and I may say virtue, more than a good riddle?

As long as there are countries with borders in this world, nationalism would remain the highest virtue.

You cannot imagine, my friend, the desire I have to possess Aline; I find such stinging detail in the dear young thing. It must be delicious to take her in tears! Sophie was all very fine, but Aline! We'll never go as far with the latter as with the former; there's some sort of consideration we owe to virtue—and to blood. But let's not swear on anything because, for minds like ours, the paths we take are, as you know, unbounded.

Expect the least, Accept the most

That is a way of speaking--it is not acted upon, it is not real," said Gwendolen, bitterly. "You admire Miss Lapidoth because you think herblameless, perfect. And you know you would despise a woman who had donesomething you thought very wrong.""That would depend entirely upon her own view of what she had done," saidDeronda.

That is a way of speaking--it is not acted upon, it is not real," saidGwendolen, bitterly. "You admire Miss Lapidoth because you think herblameless, perfect. And you know you would despise a woman who had donesomething you thought very wrong.""That would depend entirely upon her own view of what she had done," saidDeronda.

Those of us who aren’t summoned by the Dark Mark consider honesty to be a virtue.

To confess uprightness in one of the opposite party seemed to most men to involve treachery to their own.