Vice And Virtue Quotes - Page 2

• Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.

  John Dryden

  Grace, Affection, Goodness

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• Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Happiness, Children, Gold

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• Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life, and if Virtue is not its own reward, I don't know any other stipend annexed to it.

  Lord Byron

  Life, Vices, Literature

  "Lord Byron", www.theguardian.com. July 22, 2008.

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• There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or to be acted out under the guise of virtue.

  Erich Fromm

  Spiritual, Envy, Feelings

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics”, p.235, Routledge

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• Courage is the form of every virtue at the testing point.

  Lynn G. Robbins

  Courage, Bravery, Heroic

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• Let them show me a cottage where there are not the same vices of which they accuse the courts.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Vices, Cottages, Court

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Eugenia Stanhope (1827). “Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son”, p.324

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• Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

  Gautama Buddha

  Love, Positive, Inspiring

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• He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Change, Integrity, Roots

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• The extremes of vice and virtue are alike detestable, and absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is.

  Samuel Butler

  Men, Vices, Virtue

  Samuel Butler (2008). “The Note-books of Samuel Butler: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.30, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• [I]f vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established.

  Algernon Sidney

  Liberty, Arbitrary, Vices

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• But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.

  Edmund Burke

  Wisdom, Evil, Liberty

  Edmund Burke (2005). “Burke, Select Works”, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

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• Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Wise, Wisdom, 4th Of July

  Benjamin Franklin (1998). “Benjamin Franklin Wit and Wisdom”, p.12, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.

  Walter Bagehot

  Temptation, Religion, Vices

  Walter Bagehot (1968). “The Collected Works of Walter Bagehot: The historical essays. v. 5-8. Political essays”

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• Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence.

  Samuel Butler

  Vices, Use, Half

  Samuel Butler (2012). “The Way of All Flesh”, p.239, Courier Corporation

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• We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Vices, Virtue, Despise

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  The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Inspirational, Book, Beer

  FaceBook post by Elizabeth Taylor from Jun 23, 2016

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• Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue.

  David Hume

  Men, Two, Heaven

  David Hume (1824). “The Philosophical Works of David Hume ... Containing Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, Essays on the Immortality of the Soul, Suicide ... &c. A New Edition”, p.118

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• Vice and virtue chiefly imply the relation of our actions to men in this world; sin and holiness rather imply their relation to God and the other world.

  Isaac Watts

  Men, Other Worlds, Vices

  Isaac Watts (1813). “The Works of the Rev. Isaac Watts D.D. in Nine Volumes”, p.464

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• Yes, I laugh at all mankind, and the imposition that they dare to practice when they talk of hearts. I laugh at human passions and human cares, vice and virtue, religion and impiety; they are all the result of petty localities, and artificial situation. One physical want, one severe and abrupt lesson from the colorless and shriveled lip of necessity, is worth all the logic of the empty wretches who have presumed to prate it, from Zeno down to Burgersdicius. It silences in a second all the feeble sophistry of conventional life, and ascetical passion.

  Charles Robert Maturin

  Passion, Heart, Practice

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• Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.

  Alexander Pope

  Thinking, Vices, Strange

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• Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker.

  Dorothy Parker

  Nice, Vices, Virtue

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• There are some who write, talk, and think, so much about vice and virtue, that they have no time to practice either the one or the other.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Writing, Thinking, Practice

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.52

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• Virtue consists in avoiding scandal and venereal disease.

  Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury

  Disease, Scandal, Virtue

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  The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Freedom, Independent

  Sir Winston Churchill (1965). “The Churchill Wit”

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  One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Strength, Inspiring

  "Pray It Forward: Daily Meditations" by Rowena Holloway, iUniverse, (p. 34), August 1, 2007.

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