Quotes by Virtue It is not becoming to lay to virtue the weariness of old age. Andre Gide virtue becoming age If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny. Andre Maurois virtue destiny character Fermentation is the exhalation of a substance through the admixture of a ferment which, by virtue of its spirit, penetrates the mass and transforms it into its own nature. Andreas Libavius virtue substance spirit I find virtue to be found amongst the farmers of the country alone, not about courts, where courtiers dwell. Andrew Jackson virtue found country Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it. Andrew Young virtue hundred business Virtue is its own punishment. Aneurin Bevan punishment virtue life What I find most injurious to mankind in modern advertising is the constant appeal to material standards and values, the elevating of material things into an end in themselves, a virtue. Ann Bridge advertising modern virtue Moderation in the defense of liberty is no virtue. Ann Coulter virtue defense liberty Patience is a virtue, and Americans have it in short supply. Ann McLane Kuster patience-is-a-virtue virtue Hope is a horrible thing, you know. I don't know who decided to package hope as a virtue because it's not. It's a plague. Hope is like walking around with a fishhook in your mouth and somebody just keeps pulling it and pulling it. Ann Patchett horrible virtue mouths A man hasn't got a corner on virtue just because his shoes are shined. Ann Petry shoes virtue men But St. Aubert had too much good sense to prefer a charm to a virtue. Ann Radcliffe charm virtue too-much Even virtue itself, all perfect as it is, requires to be inspirited by passion; for duties are but coldly performed which are but philosophically fulfilled. Anna Brownell Jameson virtue passion perfect It is useless to talk virtue to a starving girl. Anna Howard Shaw virtue useless girl I would be virtuous for my own sake, though nobody were to know it; as I would be clean for my own sake, though nobody were to see me. Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury virtue sake would-be As many as are the difficulties which Virtue has to encounter in this world, her force is yet superior. Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury encounters virtue world Faith is a term that makes ignorance sound like a virtue Anthony Provenzano virtue ignorance sound Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues. Anthony Trollope audacity virtue men Obtuseness is sometimes a virtue. Antoine Rivarol virtue sometimes By poeticizing love, we imagine in those we love virtues that they often do not possess; this then becomes the source of constant mistakes and constant distress. Anton Chekhov virtue imagine mistake «1234567891011»