Virtuous Quotes

We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even whether it was the result of good or evil motives.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Let no man under value the price of a virtuous woman's counsel.

What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.

Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.

There has never been any country at every moment so virtuous and so wise that it has not sometimes needed to be saved from itself.

Sexual harassment on the job is not a problem for virtuous women.

If venereal delight and the power of propagating the species were permitted only to the virtuous, it would make the world very good.

One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.

All the rights secured to the citizens under the Constitution are worth nothing, and a mere bubble, except guaranteed to them by an independent and virtuous Judiciary.

Because just as arms have no force outside if there is no counsel within a house, study is vain and counsel useless that is not put to virtuous effect when the time calls.

All the dark, malevolent Passions of the Soul are roused and exerted; its mild and amiable affections are suppressed; and with them, virtuous Principles are laid prostrate.

What do I owe to my times, to my country, to my neighbors, to my friends? Such are the questions which a virtuous man ought often to ask himself.

It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Most people are awaiting Virtual Reality; I'm awaiting virtuous reality.

The most virtuous women have something within them, something that is never chaste.

Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire.

It is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of it's own reason.

The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.

In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason.

Be virtuous and you will be vicious.

Tutors who make youth learned do not always make them virtuous.

I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give them the right to be.

To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked.

Powerful states can maintain themselves only by crime, little states are virtuous only by weakness.

The vicious circle has been shattered. Canadians now enjoy the benefits of the virtuous circle.

He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his country. There is seldom an instance of a man guilty of betraying his country, who had not before lost the feeling of moral obligations in his private connections.

There is many a virtuous woman weary of her trade.

The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.