Samuel Butler Quotes About Virtue

Quotes about: Virtue

• If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.

  Samuel Butler

  Drinking, Beer, Alcohol

  "The Guardian view on drinking culture: statistics, myths and alcohol abuse", www.theguardian.com. December 18, 2015.

• 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

• Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.

  Samuel Butler

  Fall, Tunes, Impossible

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

• A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.

  Samuel Butler

  Gold, Virtue, Commoners

  Samuel Butler (2016). “The Way of All Flesh”, p.75, Samuel Butler

• In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa.

  Samuel Butler

  Vices, Virtue, Vice Versa

  Samuel Butler (1951). “Samuel Butler's notebooks”

• The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

  Samuel Butler

  Vices, Virtue, Function

  Samuel Butler (2014). “The Notebooks of Samuel Butler”, p.47, The Floating Press

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