(911 quotes found)
“The highest panegyric, therefore, that private virtue can receive, is the praise of servants.”
Samuel Johnson
“When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.”
Casey Stengel
“To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous.”
William Hazlitt
“The greatest offence against virtue is to speak ill of it.”
“When you run for SORF, you have to pledge that you won't judge a club's virtue based on their application. Our guidelines are all about being objective.”
Chris Foster
“Financial aid is a legacy and a justice due to the poor that our Lord Jesus Christ acquired for us. It is not a virtue for the rich to give to the poor - it is an simple act of justice.”
St. Francis of Assisi (Earlier Rule 9)
“Come down and redeem us from virtue,/ Our Lady of Pain.”
Algernon Charles Swinburne
“To say of shame - what is it? Of virtue - we can miss it; Of sin-we can kiss it, And it's no longer sin”
“As to virtue . . . it is an act of the will, a habit which increases the quantity, intensity and quality of life. It builds up, strengthens and vivifies personality.”
Alexis Carrel
“Lying is proof that your fear means more than your virtue”
Chris Valdes
