If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues. Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton More Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton Quotes 77
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered. Ralph Waldo Emerson American Poet More Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes 59
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues. Bertrand Russell British Philosopher More Bertrand Russell Quotes 4
Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues. Napoleon Bonaparte French General More Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes 2
Ninety per cent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves - so how can we know anyone else? Sydney J. Harris American Journalist More Sydney J. Harris Quotes 1
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. C. S. Lewis British Author More C. S. Lewis Quotes 1
Hear the words of prudence, give heed unto her counsels, and store them in thine heart; her maxims are universal, and all the virtues lean upon her; she is the guide and the mistress of human life. Akhenaton Egyptian Statesman More Akhenaton Quotes 1
The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. Aristotle Greek Philosopher More Aristotle Quotes 1
The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit. Aristotle Greek Philosopher More Aristotle Quotes 1
The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast. Buddha Leader More Buddha Quotes 1
I neither drink nor smoke, because my schoolmaster impressed upon me three cardinal virtues; cleanliness in person, cleanliness in mind; temperance. John Burns English Activist More John Burns Quotes 0
Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues. Anatole France French Novelist More Anatole France Quotes 0
Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe German Poet More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes 0
Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues. Oliver Goldsmith Irish Poet More Oliver Goldsmith Quotes 0
Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary. Walter Scott Scottish Novelist More Walter Scott Quotes 0
Negroes are human beings with exactly the same faults and virtues as members of the other races. Ethel Waters American Musician More Ethel Waters Quotes 0
It is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of it's own reason. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley English Author More Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Quotes 0
Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own. George Bernard Shaw Irish Dramatist More George Bernard Shaw Quotes 0
Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed. William Shenstone English Poet More William Shenstone Quotes 0
It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster. Rebecca West Irish Author More Rebecca West Quotes 0
Christian virtues unite men. Racism separates them. Sargent Shriver American Politician More Sargent Shriver Quotes 0
My parents had always preached the virtues of hard work. But hard work is one thing; economic struggle is another. Sargent Shriver American Politician More Sargent Shriver Quotes 0
In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason. Mary Wollstonecraft British Writer More Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes 0
Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect. Sydney Smith English Clergyman More Sydney Smith Quotes 0
Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones. Sydney Smith English Clergyman More Sydney Smith Quotes 0