Top 18 Quotes About Virtue In The Prince
#1. A prince, the moment he is crown'd,
Inherits every virtue sound,
As emblems of the sovereign power,
Like other baubles in the Tower:
Is generous, valiant, just, and wise,
And so continues till he dies.
Jonathan Swift
#2. Ambition, in a private man is a vice, is in a prince the virtue.
Philip Massinger
#3. A fish might more easily live on the apex of a rock than a man accustomed to crime live a life of virtue. ("The Story of Prince Barkiarokh")
William Beckford
#4. The highs were high, the awe, I'm not a religious person, but I'll tell you, to be in the azure blue of the Gulf Stream as if, as you're breathing, you're looking down miles and miles and miles, to feel the majesty of this blue planet we live on, it's awe-inspiring.
Diana Nyad
#5. It was [Totila's] constant theme, that national vice and ruin are inseparably connected; that victory is the fruit of moral as well as military virtue; and that the prince, and even the people, are responsible for the crimes which they neglect to punish.
Edward Gibbon
#6. Real life doesn't grant us many of the more than useful possibilities people can come out with in fiction.
Camilo Gomes Jr.
#7. Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people.
Jean De La Fontaine
#8. Success is deeply rooted in time and place. You may have the drive to read tons of books on biology. But if there are no books on biology in your library, and the library is never open, your drive is meaningless.
Malcolm Gladwell
#9. The official declaration of war came on October 19, 1739, with the ringing of bells and the Prince of Wales toasting the London populace outside the Rose Tavern near Temple Bar. "This is your war," Walpole told his rival the Duke of Newcastle, "and I wish you joy of it.
Arthur Herman
#11. If the sun warms up the rain, and the rain puts out the sun. Why does the greatest love become the greatest pain?
Stevie Nicks
#12. Once you're a Motown artist, you're always a Motown artist.
Smokey Robinson
#13. The one thing I learned the most about acting is it takes a tremendous amount of courage to go there and stand still. It takes courage and guts to step out of your mind frame and depict something.
Carson Daly
#14. He'd never risk his life if he could avoid it. "I'd rather live, thank you." In
Joyce Carol Oates
#16. She might even have felt that self-congratulatory pride that heterosexual white people are known to experience due to proximate diversity.
Curtis Sittenfeld
#17. I should like to enflame the whole world with my taste for gardening. There is no virtue that I would not attribute to the man who lives to project and execute gardens.
Michel, 14th Prince Of Ligne
#18. The job of adults who care about reading is to move heaven and earth to put that book into a child's hands. Nancie Atwell9
Kenny Pieper