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Virtue is a beautiful thing in woman when they don't go about with it like a child with a drum making all sorts of…

— Douglas William Jerrold

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

— Elbert Hubbard

Women's virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a tenderness for their reputation.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Virtue in women is perhaps a question of temperament.

— Honore de Balzac

In the long run, only woman remains true to mankind's foremost mission. Whatever she achieves, she achieves through herself, and alone. Man's master is…

— Franz Grillparzer

I say women exhibit the most exalted virtue when they depart from the domestic circle and enter on the concerns of their country, of…

— John Quincy Adams

It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men.

— Mary Wollstonecraft

When virtue was spoken of in the classical sense, for men, it always meant bravery or protecting others or being an adventurer and going…

— Molly Crabapple

The society we live in has always taught us to believe that a woman of substance is one who has great virtues and moral…

— Sherlyn Chopra

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

— Ninon de L'Enclos

No woman is envious of another's virtue who is conscious of her own.

— Charlotte Lennox

the true lady is in theory either a virgin or a lawful wife.

— Emily James Smith Putnam