The cardinal virtue of a teacher is to protect the pupil from his own influence
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.
~Virtue quote by Aristotle

Virtue is insufficient temptation.
~George Bernard Shaw

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
~Baruch Spinoza

Confidentiality is a virtue of the loyal, as loyalty is the virtue of faithfulness.
~Edwin Louis Cole

Creative thinking may mean simply the realization that there’s no particular virtue in doing things the way they always have been done
~Rudolf Flesch

When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary
~ Thomas Paine

Silver and gold are not the only coin; virtue too passes current all over the world.
~Euripides

The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast.
~Gautama Buddha

A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues
~Marcus Tullius Cicero

Blushing is the color of virtue.
~Diogenes

People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you’ve got to keep your feet warm.
~Denis Diderot

Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.
~Matthew Prior

Practice random acts of kindness and senseless acts of beauty
~Anne Herbert

I prefer an accommodation vice to an obstinate virtue.
~ Moliere

We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke strops our vice.
~Henry David Thoreau

Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.
~Joseph Addison

Modesty, it is a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.
~Miguel De Cervantes

Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them
~Voltaire quotes

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall
~ William Shakespeare

So our virtues Lie in the interpretation of the time
~William Shakespeare

The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.
~Thomas Wolfe

There are no grades of vanity, there are only grades of ability in concealing it.
~Mark Twain

Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
~Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it make us vain, in fact, of our modesty.
~Louis Kronenberger

Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
~Robert Louis Stevenson

The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead.
~George Savile

Vanity, like murder, will out.
~ Hannah Parkhouse Cowley

The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that is laughable is vanity.
~Henri Bergson

Here files of pins extend their shining rows, Puffs, powders, patches, bibles, billet-doux.
~ Alexander Pope

We speak little if not egged on by vanity.
~François de la Rochefoucauld

The vanity of others runs counter to our taste only when it runs counter to our vanity
~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory.
~Joseph Conrad

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.
~George Eliot

Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity
~Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.
~Julian Casablancas

The vanity of loving fine clothes and new fashion, and placing value on ourselves by them is one of the most childish pieces of folly.
~Matthew Hale

Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people.
~Garrison Keillor

Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
~François de la Rochefoucauld

But, after all, we are a young nation, and vanity is a fault of youth.
~Rebecca H. Davis

The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that’s laughable is vanity.
~Henri Bergson

Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.
~Benjamin Franklin

You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion.
~Gustav Mahler

Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
~Bible

Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood – we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we.
Jean Rostand

Animals are my friends… and I don’t eat my friends.
~George Bernard Shaw

A vegetarian is a person who won’t eat anything that can have children.
~ David Brenner

While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts, how can we expect any ideal conditions on this earth? ~George Bernard Shaw

In their behavior toward creatures, all men are Nazis. Human beings see oppression vividly when they’re the victims. Otherwise they victimize blindly and without a thought.
~Isaac Bashevis

I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being.”
~Abraham Lincoln

Vegetarian – that’s an old Indian word meaning ‘lousy hunter’
~ Andy Rooney

I’ve been a vegetarian for years and years. I’m not judgemental about others who aren’t, I just feel I cannot eat or wear living creatures.
~ Drew Barrymore

Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian
~ Dennis Wholey

You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.
~A. Whitney Brown

Everyone’s a pacifist between wars. It’s like being a vegetarian between meals.
~ Colman McCarthy

Fork: An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into the mouth.
~Ambrose Bierce

I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunlight.
~ Rita Rudner

You can shoot the tiger, or stay out of his way, but you cannot pronounce him a vegetarian
~ Richard Mitchell

Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.
~ Albert Einstein

Vegetarian – that’s an old Indian word meaning “lousy hunter.”
~Andy Rooney

If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.
~Paul McCartney