Quotes about Virtue
I believe that virtue shows quite as well in rags and patches as she does in purple and fine linen,... even if Gargery and Boffin did not speak like gentlemen, they were gentlemen.
— Charles Dickens
we all did what we undertake to do, as faithfully as Herbert did, we might live in a Republic of the Virtues.
— Charles Dickens
Power, unless it be the power of intellect or virtue, has ever the greatest attraction for the lowest natures.
— Charles Dickens
Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
— Henry David Thoreau
I have tried so hard to do right.
— Grover Cleveland
Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking
— H Jackson Brown, Jr.
We are sometimes so busy being good angels that we neglect to be good men and women.
— Francis de Sales
I say women exhibit the most exalted virtue when they depart from the domestic circle and enter on the concerns of their country, of humanity, and of their G-d!
— John Quincy Adams
Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity.
— Tertullian
Nothing so casts down the manly mind from it's height as the fondling of women and those bodily contacts which belong to the married state.
— St. Augustine
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.
— GK Chesterton
Modest women choose a man by the mind, not the eye.
— Publilius Syrus