Short Virtue Quotes

#1. In short, virtue cannot live where envy reigns, nor liberality subsist with niggardliness.

Miguel De Cervantes

#2. Experience has shown us that virtue puts down only shallow roots in those who are there for just a short time

Vincent De Paul

#3. Dear, harmless age! the short, swift span Where weeping Virtue parts with man; Where love without lust dwells, and bends What way we please without self-ends. An age of mysteries! which he Must live that would God's face see Which angels guard, and with it play, Angels! which foul men drive away.

Henry Vaughan

#4. Wickedness is always easier than virtue; for it takes the short cut to everything.

Samuel Johnson

#5. Virtues should not be seen as a medium to please others, else, they'll always fall short. They should, first, be a medium of self-edification.

Ufuoma Apoki

#6. The laws by which the Divine Ruler of the universe has decreed an indissoluble connection between public happiness and private virtue, whatever apparent exceptions may delude our short-sighted judgments, never fail to vindicate their supremacy and immutability.

William Cabell Rives

#7. While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in the short space of four years.

Abraham Lincoln

#8. Only a wise man could see my people so clearly in so short a time. Only a ruthless one would say it all out loud. Your virtue and your flaw- we need them both.

Orson Scott Card

#9. The sole virtue of losing your short-term memory is that it does free you to be your own editor.

Norman Mailer

#10. In short, all things that please the natural man in this world, are, to a true Christian, only so many crosses and temptations, allurements of sin and snares of death, that continually exercise his virtue.

Johann Arndt

#11. We're all forced to lead many lives simultaneously. We do it out of necessity, not choice. We don't make a virtue of it.

Ashok Ferrey

#12. Patience is a virtue, and Americans have it in short supply,

Ann McLane Kuster

#13. Much better stay in company!
To love you must have someone else,
Giving requires a legatee,
Good neighbours need whole parishfuls
Of folk to do it on - in short,
Our virtues are all social; if,
Deprived of solitude, you chafe,
It's clear you're not the virtuous sort.

Philip Larkin

#14. Love without truth and honor is licentious in nature. Love without commitment is promiscuous and fleeting. Love without virtue and understanding is savage and selfish. Love without respect is short-lived. Love without these conditions is without God.

David W. Stevens

#15. Somehow the notion has been loosed that nature is hostile to man or that her ways are offensive or slovenly, so that every step of progress is measured by how far we have altered these. Nothing short of a recovery of the ancient virtue of pietas can absolve man from this sin.

Richard M. Weaver

#16. A boy is a man in miniature, and though he may sometimes exhibit notable virtue, as well as characteristics that seem to be charming because they are childlike, he is also a schemer, self-seeker, traitor, Judas, crook, and villain - in short, a man.

Robertson Davies

#17. As if all that weren't enough, factor in the whole tedious millenial saga of female virtue, modesty, shame, repression, male ineptitude ... in short, a cruel combo of anatomical inheritance and sexual inhibition for the gal set; a nature-culture one-two punch, right to the female pleasure principle.

Laura Kipnis

#18. The vices respectively fall short of or exceed what is right in both passions and actions, while virtue both finds and chooses that which is intermediate.

Aristotle.

#19. Beauty and ugliness have one origin.
Name beauty, and ugliness is.
Recognizing virtue recognizes evil.

Is and is not produce one another.
The difficult is born in the easy,
long is defined by short, the high by the low.

Sam Hamill