Virtue Quotes

Because impudence is a vice, it does not follow that modesty is a virtue; it is built upon shame, a passion in our nature, and may be either good or bad according to the actions performed from that motive.

Bernard Mandeville

Modesty is the citadel of beauty and virtue.

Demades

When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist.

Akhenaton

Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.

Miguel De Cervantes

Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.

Joseph Addison

Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Modesty in woman is a virtue most deserving, since we do all we can to cure her of it.

Joseph Addison

Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.

Voltaire

I used to suppose that certain evils could never befall a being in possession of a sound mind; that true virtue supplies us with energy which vice can never resist; that it was always in our power to obstruct, by his own death, the designs of an enemy who aimed at less than our lives.

Charles Brockden Brown

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.

Wilhelm Von Humboldt

Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them

Voltaire

Strict punctuality is perhaps the cheapest virtue which can give force to an otherwise utterly insignificant character.

John F. Boyes

Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

Evelyn Waugh

Fidelity is a virtue which should be frequently proved, but not always.

Omar Sharif
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