Keyword: Virtue

Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.

(1878 – 1937) humorist, journalist & author
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Virtue has its own reward, but no box office.

(1893 – 1980) actress, playwright, screenwriter & sex symbol
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Virtue is insufficient temptation.

(1856 – 1950) Irish playwright & socialist
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Virtue is its own punishment.

(1897 – 1960) Welsh labor leader & politician
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Wickedness is always easier than virtue; for it takes the short cut to everything.

(1709 – 1784) English author, essayist, critic, editor & lexicographer
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Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady, except that a newspaper can always print a retraction.

(1900 – 1965) diplomat & Democratic politician
People

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

(1694 – 1778) French author, humanist & satirist
Age Old

Virtue is its own punishment.

Murphy’s Laws

Virtue: Lack of opportunity.

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Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

(1903 – 1966) English writer
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The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

(1835 – 1902) English composer, author & satirist
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As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.

(1667 – 1745) Irish satirist & essayist
Characteristics Fools Intelligence Men People Women

Virtue: Insufficient temptation.

Characteristics Definitions

Virtue is its own punishment.

Characteristics Murphy’s Laws

Vice: A function to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

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