Margaret Deland - Virtue Quotes

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Self-sacrifice which denies common sense isn't virtue; it's spiritual dissipation!

Margaret Deland

Isn't there any statute of limitation in things spiritual? I don't believe any large mind dwells on its sins, any more than on its virtues!

Margaret Deland

There isn't any virtue where there has never been any temptation. Virtue is just temptation, overcome.

Margaret Deland

By some mysterious method, Susan Carr's gossip gave the listener a gentler feeling towards his kind. When she spoke of her neighbors' faults, one knew that somehow they were simply virtues gone to seed.

Margaret Deland

Men love their wives not because of their virtues, but in spite of them.

Margaret Deland

There's a pitch of virtue about him that is exhausting.

Margaret Deland