Quotes About Virtue

If you look after goodness and truth, beauty will take care of itself.

I have always believed that good is only beauty put into practice.

Beauty has a lot to do with character.

The virtue of pride, which was once the beauty of mankind, has given place to that fount of ugliness, Christian humility.

Let no man value at a little price A virtuous woman's counsel; her winged spirit Is feathered often times with heavenly words, And, like her beauty, ravishing and pure.

Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth.

I had much rather be adorned by beauty of character than by jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, character comes from within.

What is beauty, but an extension of modesty?

Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.

Modest humility is beauty's crown.

Beauty is an exquisite flower, and its perfume is virtue.

The fame which is based on wealth or beauty is a frail and fleeting thing; but virtue shines for ages with undiminished lustre.

While she is lovely, we need to remember that her face is not what distinguishes her. Her beauty is a reflection of the virtue and talent she keeps inside.

Goodness is beauty in the best estate.

Modesty is the citadel of beauty.

Beauty comes from within; a greedy, avaricious, gossipy woman cannot be beautiful.

Rarely do we meet in one combined, a beauteous body and a virtuous mind.

Beauty is the flower of virtue.

brains last, beauty doesn't.

It is goodness that gives to a neighborhood its beauty. One who is free to choose, yet does not prefer to dwell among the good - how can he be accorded the name of wise?

Those three divine attributes of a perfect woman: goodness, beauty and wealth.

Truth is the first thing to be sought for, and Beauty and Goodness will then be added unto you.

The concept of physical beauty as a virtue is one of the dumbest, most pernicious and destructive ideas of the Western world, and we should have nothing to do with it.