Virtuous Quotes - Page 3

There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.

Men are virtuous because women are; women are virtuous from necessity.

Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy. At least, you will by such conduct, stand the best chance for such consequences.

Spurn not the nobly born with love affected; nor treat with virtuous scorn the well connected.

For tutors, although they may make youth learned, do not always make them virtuous.

A woman in love has full intelligence of her power; the more virtuous she is, the more effective her coquetry.

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.

[M]en will be free no longer then while they remain virtuous.

Will. Honeycomb calls these over-offended ladies the outrageously virtuous.

A virtuous wife commands her husband by obeying him.

A man always assumes that others are as virtuous as himself

The virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things.

For many wish not so much to be, as to seem to be, endowed with real virtue.

Men dissimulate their dearest, most constant, and most virtuous inclination from weakness and a fear of being condemned.

No single virtue is, on its own, necessarily virtuous.

As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

We must confess that at present the rich predominate, but the future will be for the virtuous and ingenious.

It is easy to be virtuous in prospective.

Nothing more excites to everything noble and generous, than virtuous love.

It is not always for virtue's sake that women are virtuous.

Temptations make one very censorious. If you are virtuous you condemn the wicked and if you are wicked, you condemn the virtuous.

She lived, we'll say, A harmless life, she called a virtuous life, A quiet life, which was not life at all (But that she had not lived enough to know)

The way you make money is to do something you don't like to do. And that's how you know you're a virtuous person.

Not to be, but to seem, virtuous - it is a formula whose utility we all discovered in the nursery.

No longer virtuous no longer free; is a Maxim as true with regard to a private Person as a Common-wealth.