Virtues

Famous quotes containing the word virtues:

“Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail.”
—Walter Lippmann (1889–1974)

“Our virtues are all social; if,
Deprived of solitude, you chafe,
It’s clear you’re not the virtuous sort.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

“Their virtues lived in their children. The family changed its persons but not its manners, and they continued a blessing to the world from generation to generation.”
—Sarah Fielding (1710–1768)