Quotes About Virtue

It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ugly.

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth.

No animal ever invented anything as bad as drunkenness - or as good as drink.

My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.

No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.

Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.

Wisdom and knowledge, as well as virtue, diffused generally among the body of the people being necessary for the preservation of their rights and liberties; and as these depend on spreading the opportunities and advantages of education in various parts of the country, and among the different orders of the people, it shall be the duty of legislators and magistrates in all future periods of this commonwealth to cherish the interests of literature and the sciences

God hath prepared a little coronet or special reward (extraordinary and beside the great crown of all faithful souls) for those who have not defiled themselves with women.

There has come into existence, chiefly in America, a breed of men who claim to be feminists. They imagine that they have understood ''what women want'' and that they are capable of giving it to them. They help with the dishes at home and make their own coffee in the office, basking the while in the refulgent consciousness of virtue. Such men are apt to think of the true male feminists as utterly chauvinistic.

Good name in man and woman is the immediate jewel of their souls.

The resistance of a woman is not always a proof of her virtue, but more frequently of her experience.

A woman of honor should never suspect another of things she would not do herself.

Men lose more conquests by their own awkwardness than by any virtue in the woman.

Once man demanded virtue in woman; now all he expects is that she be discreet.

One woman is fair, yet I am well; another is wise, yet I am well; another virtuous, yet I am well; but till all graces be in one woman, one woman shall not come in my grace.

When love once pleads admission to our hearts, In spite of all the virtue we can boast, The woman that deliberates is lost.

The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation because in the degradation of woman the very fountains of life are poisoned at their source.

When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist.

No gown worse becomes a woman than the desire to be wise.

The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.

I have never seen a man as fond of virtue as of women.

A woman can defend her virtue from men much more easily than she can protect her reputation from women.

As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.