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
While many of us never knew Ronald Reagan personally, we felt close to him because we shared his lighthearted sense of humor, admired his uncommon virtue, and were moved by his remarkable wisdom. – Randy Forbes
A constitutional democracy is in serious trouble if its citizenry does not have a certain degree of education and civic virtue. – Phillip E. Johnson
Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps. – Quentin Crisp
The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted. – Saint Augustine
What other nations call religious toleration, we call religious rights. They are not exercised in virtue of governmental indulgence, but as rights, of which government cannot deprive any portion of citizens, however small. – Richard Mentor Johnson
You want to make people laugh and by virtue of that please them, but when you’re instructed to make people laugh and please them, you’re too resentful to do it. – Sarah Silverman
All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I returned to Jerusalem, and it is by virtue of Jerusalem that I have written all that God has put into my heart and into my pen. – Shmuel Yosef Agnon
Email has the virtue – sounds like a bad thing, but it’s the virtue of being the lowest common denominator messaging protocol. Everyone can have it. It can cross organizational boundaries. No one owns it. It’s not some particular company’s platform. – Stewart Butterfield
The virtue of privacy is one that must be protected in matters that are intimate and within one’s own family. – Tiger Woods
Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition. – Thomas Jefferson
To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem… ridiculous. – William Hazlitt
Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright. – Van Wyck Brooks
In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention. – Simone Weil
There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion. – William Hazlitt
