Virtuous Quotes - Page 20

• Nothing more excites to everything noble and generous, than virtuous love.

  Henry Home, Lord Kames

  Love, Noble, Generous

  Henry HOME (Lord Kames.) (1775). “Introduction to the art of thinking. Third edition. Enlarged with additional maxims and illustrations. [By Henry Home, Lord Kames.]”, p.22

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• As the love of the heavens makes us heavenly, the love of virtue virtuous, so doth the love of the world make one become worldly.

  Philip Sidney

  Heaven, World, Virtue

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• A virtuous wife commands her husband by obeying him.

  Publilius Syrus

  Husband, Wife, Command

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• Material advancement has its share in moral and intellectual progress. Becky Sharp's acute remark that it is not difficult to be virtuous on ten thousand a year has its applications to nations; and it is futile to expect a hungry and squalid population to be anything but violent and gross.

  Thomas Huxley

  Years, Intellectual, Progress

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1882). “Science and Culture: And Other Essays”

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• I have this very moment finished reading a novel called The Vicar of Wakefield [by Oliver Goldsmith].... It appears to me, to be impossible any person could read this book through with a dry eye and yet, I don't much like it.... There is but very little story, the plot is thin, the incidents very rare, the sentiments uncommon, the vicar is contented, humble, pious, virtuous--but upon the whole the book has not at all satisfied my expectations.

  Fanny Burney

  Reading, Book, Eye

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• The awakenings of remorse, virtuous shame and indignation, the glow of moral approbation if they do not lead to action, grow less and less vivid every time they occur, till at length the mind grows absolutely callous.

  Anna Letitia Barbauld

  Mind, Vivid, Awakening

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• Homosexuality was invented by a straight world dealing with its own bisexuality. But finding this difficult, and preferring not toadmit it, it invented a pariah state, a leper colony for the incorrigible whose very existence, when tolerated openly, was admonition to all. We queers keep everyone straight as whores keep matrons virtuous.

  Kate Millett

  World, Homosexuality, States

  Kate Millett (2000). “Flying”, p.97, University of Illinois Press

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• All morality depends upon our sentiments; and when any action or quality of the mind pleases us after a certain manner we say it is virtuous; and when the neglect or nonperformance of it displeases us after a like manner, we say that we lie under an obligation to perform it.

  David Hume

  Lying, Mind, Quality

  David Hume (2010). “Moral and Political Philosophy”, p.142, Simon and Schuster

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• All those who write either explicitly or by insinuation against the dignity, freedom, and immortality of the human soul, may so far forth be justly said to unhinge the principles of morality, and destroy the means of making men reasonably virtuous.

  George Berkeley

  Writing, Mean, Men

  George Berkeley (1871). “The applied philosophical works”, p.16

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• By the worldly standards of public life, all scholars in their work are of course oddly virtuous. They do not make wild claims, they do not cheat, they do not try to persuade at any cost, they appeal neither to prejudice nor to authority . . .

  Jacob Bronowski

  Trying, Prejudice, Cost

  Jacob Bronowski (1975). “Science and Human Values”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Cannibalism to a certain moderate extent is practised among several of the primitive tribes in the Pacific, but it is upon the bodies of slain enemies alone; and horrible and fearful as the custom is, immeasurably as it is to be abhorred and condemned, still I assert that those who indulge in it are in other respects humane and virtuous.

  Herman Melville

  Indulge In, Enemy, Cannibalism

  Herman Melville (2017). “The Complete Novels of Herman Melville: Sea Tales, Maritime Adventures & Philosophical Novels: Moby-Dick, Typee, Omoo, Mardi, Redburn, White-Jacket, Pierre, Israel Potter, The Confidence-Man & Billy Budd, Sailor”, p.175, e-artnow

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• An inebriated elderly gentleman in the last depths of shabbiness... played the calm and virtuous old men.

  Charles Dickens

  Men, Elderly, Gentleman

  Charles Dickens (1867). “The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby”, p.182

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• In a virtuous and free state, no rewards can be so pleasing to sensible minds, as those which include the approbation of our fellow citizens. My great pain is, lest my poor endeavours should fall short of the kind expectations of my country.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Pain, Fall

  Thomas Jefferson, Newsweek, inc. Book Division (1974). “Thomas Jefferson: a biography in his own words”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Men are not made religious by performing certain actions which are externally good, but they must first have righteous principles, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.

  Martin Luther

  Religious, Failure, Men

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• No matter how well-born, how intelligent, how highly educated, how virtuous, how rich, how refined, the women of to-day constitutea political class below that of every man, no matter how base-born, how stupid, how ignorant, how vicious, how poverty-stricken, how brutal. The pauper in the almshouse may vote; the lady who devotes her philanthropic thought to making that almshouse habitable, may not. The tramp who begs cold victuals in the kitchen may vote; the heiress who feeds him and endows universities may not.

  Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi

  Stupid, Intelligent, Men

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• One of the great myths in America is that sports build character. They can and they should. Indeed, sports may be the perfect venue in which to build character. But sports don't build character unless a coach possesses character and intentionally teaches it. Sports can team with ethics and character and spirituality; virtuous coaching can integrate the body with the heart, the mind, and the soul.

  Joe Ehrmann

  Sports, Team, Character

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• We, at least, are not loyal men: we confess to having more respect and honour for the raggedest child of the poorest labourer in Ireland today than for any, even the most virtuous, descendant of the long array of murderers, adulterers and madmen who have sat upon the throne of England.

  James Connolly

  Children, Men, Long

  James Connolly (1987). “Labour in Irish history ; The re-conquest of Ireland ; Socialism and nationalism”

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• Do your neighbour good by all means in your power, moral as well as physical - by kindness, by patience, by unflinching resistance against every outward evil - by the silent preaching of your own contrary life. But if the only good you can do him is by talking at him, or about him - nay, even to him, if it be in a self-satisfied, super-virtuous style - such as I earnestly hope the present writer is not doing - you had much better leave him alone.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Kindness, Mean, Self

  "A Woman's Thoughts About Women" by Dinah Maria Murlock Craik, (Ch. 8), 1858.

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• Men dissimulate their dearest, most constant, and most virtuous inclination from weakness and a fear of being condemned.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Men, Weakness, Constant

  "Reflections and Maxims". Book by Luc de Clapiers, 1746.

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• We shall all be perfectly virtuous when there is no longer any flesh on our bones.

  Margaret of Valois

  Flesh, Bones, Virtue

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• Embellish the soul with simplicity, with prudence, and everything which is neither virtuous nor vicious. Love all men. Walk according to God; for, as a poet hath said, his laws govern all.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Men, Law, Simplicity

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• It is easier to be virtuous than it is to appear so, and it pays better.

  Josh Billings

  Pay, Virtue, Easier

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• There is no jewel in the world so valuable as a chaste and virtuous woman.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Women, Jewels, World

  Miguel de CERVANTES SAAVEDRA (1819). “Don Quixote de la Mancha”, p.100

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• Evening is the delight of virtuous age; it seems an emblem of the tranquil close of busy life--serene, placid, and mild, with the impress of its great Creator stamped upon it; it spreads its quiet wings over the grave, and seems to promise that all shall be peace beyond it.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Wings, Promise, Age

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• A virtuous name is the precious only good, for which queens and peasants' wives must contest together.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Queens, Names, Wife

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