Robert Pinsky (1940) American poet, editor, literary critic, academic.
WPFW-FM inteview with Grace Cavalieri 1995/96 season
“There is no absolute virtue in iambic pentameter as such.. however well they may be done. There is no immediate virtue to rhythm even. These things are merely a means to an end.”
'Essay on Imagism' (appended to 'Mirrors of Illusion', Sisley, London) 1909
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Orson Welles (1915–1985) American actor, director, writer and producer
Keith Baxter interviewed by Geoff Andrew for the British Film Institute (on the only piece of direction Welles ever gave him) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qON_f32HQDk
“Even a man's faults may reflect his virtues.”
John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher (1841–1920) Royal Navy admiral of the fleet
p. 273. https://archive.org/stream/memoriesbyadmira00fishuoft#page/273/mode/1up <br class="br"> Memories (1919) https://archive.org/stream/memoriesbyadmira00fishuoft#page/n0/mode/2up
Samuel Butler (1835–1902) novelist
Vice and Virtue, ii
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part II - Elementary Morality
“Virtue is not malicious; wrong done her
Is righted even when men grant they err.”
George Chapman Monsieur D'Olive
Monsieur D'Olive, Act I, scene i; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.”
Edmund Burke (1729–1797) Anglo-Irish statesman
First known in Thomas Fuller's Gnomologia: Adages and Proverbs (1732), but not found in the writings of Edmund Burke.
Misattributed
“Virtue is the mistress of all things. Virtue is the master of all things.”
John Adams (1735–1826) 2nd President of the United States
(6 August 1796)
1750s, Diaries (1750s-1790s)
Context: Omnium rerum domina, virtus. Virtue is the mistress of all things. Virtue is the master of all things. Therefore a nation that should never do wrong must necessarily govern the world. The might of virtue, the power of virtue, is not a very common topic, not so common as it should be.
Northrop Frye (1912–1991) Canadian literary critic and literary theorist
"Quotes", The Educated Imagination (1963), Talk 6: The Vocation of Eloquence
Ibn Taymiyyah (1263–1328) Sunni Islamic scholar and theologian, who lived during the era of the first Mamluks (1250-1328)
Ibn Taymiyyah, A. (2004) Majmu’ al-Fatawa. Vol 14, p. 266.