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Quotes About Virtue

We know that men and women can be good without faith. We know that.
~ George W. Bush
Women have a thirst for order and beauty as for something physical; there is a strange female power of hating ugliness and waste as good men can only hate sin and bad men virtue.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
Virtue in women is perhaps a question of temperament.
~ Honore de Balzac
Woman is stronger by virtue of her feelings than man by virtue of his power.
~ Honore de Balzac
?Courage is a virtue appreciated in a male but considered a defect in our gender. Bold women are a threat to a world that is badly out of balance, in favor of men.
~ Isabel Allende
Women are much more honourable than men.
~ Martin Firrell
Women are the guardians of morality.
~ Michel, 14th Prince of Ligne
The charity of good women is such that their 'love makes no parade'; they are not glad 'when others go wrong'; they are too busy serving to sit statusfully about, waiting to be offended.
~ Neal A. Maxwell
Modest women choose a man by the mind, not the eye.
~ Publilius Syrus
I don't mind plain women being puritans. It is the only excuse they have for being plain.
~ Oscar Wilde
Pure women are only those who have not been asked.
~ Ovid
The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue.
~ Samuel Richardson
Women have a very good sense for seeing instantly what constitutes a good man. Not physically. The physical strength is only a small side of it.
~ Werner Herzog
Woman's virtue is man's greatest invention.
~ Cornelia Otis Skinner
Men, and pigs, are hard on women who sacrifice their virtue, especially for love." Mattis Tannhouser
~ Tim Willocks, The Religion
We are advised to meditate on things that are true, lovely, noble, gracious and bring good report. These should form the basis of our thought pattern.
~ Jaachynma N.E. Agu
A respectful woman is a righteous woman.
~ Habeeb Akande
In the days of Gary Cooper, James Stewart etc, film stars personified the better aspects of human nature.
~ Alexander Walker
When you concentrate on agriculture and industry and are frugal in expenditures, Heaven cannot impoverish your state.
~ Xun Kuang
All moral laws are merely statements that certain kinds of actions will have good effects.
~ George Edward Moore
I stayed a virgin until I was 23. I didn't do drugs or drink or smoke.
~ Victoria Jackson
You shall not steal, nor deal falsely, nor lie to one another.
~ Moses
It's obvious you shouldn't steal, kill or be cruel.
~ Frank Black
The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident.
~ Charles Lamb