"Humility is a virtue, and it is a virtue innate in guests."

Virtue, Guests, Humility

57

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"Humility is a virtue, and it is a virtue innate in guests."

Exlpore more Virtue quotes

"To copy a virtue in another is more copying than it is virtue. Try to learn what that virtue is based upon."

Idries Shah, Indian Author

Virtue, Learning, Imitation, Authenticity

"Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set."

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

Virtue,

"There is certainly no greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed to trace our own progress in existence by such tokens as excite neither shame nor sorrow."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

Virtue, Happiness, Life, Progress

"He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place."

Charles Caleb Colton, English Writer

Virtue, Energy, Vice

"Three quarters of faith is boldness. Three quarters of wisdom is intelligence. Three quarters of love is kindness."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

Virtue, Faith, Wisdom, Love, Boldness

"It is better to be kind than be impolite."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Virtue, Kindness, Politeness, Respect, Humility

"Life can only be live with grace, gratitude and generosity."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Virtue, Grace, Gratitude, Generosity, Life

"Shunning evil is wisdom, loving God is the highest wisdom."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

Virtue, Evil, Wisdom, Love, God

"If they ever envision Goodness as a thing that exists outside them, some real thing they've been called to participate in by their actions, well then, we're headed right back toward The Virtues."

Geoffrey Wood, American Author

Virtue, Goodness, Action, Character

"Abstinence is as easy for me as temperance would be difficult."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

Virtue, Abstinence, Discipline, Choice, Balance

Explore more quotes by Max Beerbohm

"You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire sympathy in men."

Men

"Nobody ever died of laughter."

Laughter

"It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality."

Quality

"One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests."

Guest

"To mankind in general Macbeth and Lady Macbeth stand out as the supreme type of all that a host and hostess should not be."

Lady

"The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all."

Conscience

57

Standard

Customized

Exlpore more Virtue quotes

"To copy a virtue in another is more copying than it is virtue. Try to learn what that virtue is based upon."

"Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set."

"There is certainly no greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed to trace our own progress in existence by such tokens as excite neither shame nor sorrow."

"He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place."

"Three quarters of faith is boldness. Three quarters of wisdom is intelligence. Three quarters of love is kindness."

"It is better to be kind than be impolite."

"Life can only be live with grace, gratitude and generosity."

"Shunning evil is wisdom, loving God is the highest wisdom."

"If they ever envision Goodness as a thing that exists outside them, some real thing they've been called to participate in by their actions, well then, we're headed right back toward The Virtues."

"Abstinence is as easy for me as temperance would be difficult."

Explore more quotes by Max Beerbohm

"You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire sympathy in men."

"Nobody ever died of laughter."

"It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality."

"One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests."

"The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity."

"Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter."

"Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best."

"Of all the objects of hatred, a woman once loved is the most hateful."

"To mankind in general Macbeth and Lady Macbeth stand out as the supreme type of all that a host and hostess should not be."

"The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all."