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Quote with a caricature of George Orwell.

“On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.” — George Orwell, “The Art of Donald McGill,” Horizon (September 1941)

Author YahooeyPosted on January 26, 2023January 25, 2023Categories QuotationsTags George Orwell, virtueLeave a comment on Quote of the Day

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“Virtue sometimes pretends. Vice is always sincere.” — Mason Cooley, City Aphorisms, Ninth Selection (1992)

Author YahooeyPosted on November 29, 2022November 28, 2022Categories QuotationsTags Mason Cooley, vice, virtueLeave a comment on Quote of the Day

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Quote with a portrait of William Hazlitt.

“Does the love of virtue denote any wish to discover or amend our own faults? No, but it atones for an obstinate adherence to our own vices by the most virulent intolerance to human frailties.” — William Hazlitt, “On the Pleasure of Hating,” The Plain Speaker

Author YahooeyPosted on September 8, 2021September 7, 2021Categories QuotationsTags intolerance, own faults, vice, virtue, William HazlittLeave a comment on Quote of the Day

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It is a false idea of virtue which thinks it demands the sacrifice of inclination and consists only in this sacrifice. An action is not virtuous merely because it is unpleasant to do.

“It is a false idea of virtue which thinks it demands the sacrifice of inclination and consists only in this sacrifice. An action is not virtuous merely because it is unpleasant to do.” — W. Somerset Maugham, A Writers Notebook

Author YahooeyPosted on March 25, 2020March 24, 2020Categories QuotationsTags A Writer's Notebook, sacrifice, unpleasant, virtue, W. Somerset MaughamLeave a comment on Quote of the Day

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Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue.

“Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue.” — Sinclair Lewis, Babbitt

Author YahooeyPosted on February 7, 2020February 4, 2020Categories QuotationsTags Babbitt, high principles, oratory, Sinclair Lewis, virtue, vocabularyLeave a comment on Quote of the Day

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Impetuosity is a virtue only when delay is dangerous.

“Impetuosity is a virtue only when delay is dangerous.” — Rex Stout, Too Many Clients

Author YahooeyPosted on December 1, 2019November 25, 2019Categories QuotationsTags dangerous, delay, impetuosity, Rex Stout, Too Many Clients, virtue5 Comments on Quote of the Day

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All my foundation in virtue was no other than a total ignorance of vice.

“All my foundation in virtue was no other than a total ignorance of vice.” — John Cleland, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure

Author YahooeyPosted on May 30, 2018May 19, 2018Categories QuotationsTags Fanny Hill, John Cleland, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, vice, virtueLeave a comment on Quote of the Day

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There’s no virtue in being old, it just takes a long time.

“There’s no virtue in being old, it just takes a long time.” — Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love

Author YahooeyPosted on December 11, 2016December 4, 2016Categories QuotationsTags age, old, Robert A. Heinlein, time, virtueLeave a comment on Quote of the Day

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Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

“Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!” — Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son

Author YahooeyPosted on November 9, 2012January 18, 2019Categories QuotationsTags Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son, excess, vice, virtueLeave a comment on Quote of the Day

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If there is any better way to teach virtue than by practicing it, I do not know it.

“If there is any better way to teach virtue than by practicing it, I do not know it.” — Elbert Hubbard, “The Better Part,” A message to Garcia and thirteen other things

Author YahooeyPosted on October 2, 2012February 11, 2019Categories QuotationsTags Elbert Hubbard, practice, teach by example, The Better Part, virtueLeave a comment on Quote of the Day

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