Virtues

Famous quotes containing the word virtues:

    The highway presents an interesting study of American roadside advertising. There are signs that turn like windmills; startling signs that resemble crashed airplanes; signs with glass lettering which blaze forth at night when automobile headlight beams strike them; flashing neon signs; signs painted with professional touch; signs crudely lettered and misspelled.... They extol the virtues of ice creams, shoe creams, cold creams;...
    —For the State of Florida, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

    Their virtues lived in their children. The family changed its persons but not its manners, and they continued a blessing to the world from generation to generation.
    Sarah Fielding (1710–1768)

    She has too many virtues to not be Christian.
    Pierre Corneille (1606–1684)