Depressing Quote by Barbara Pym

Mildred Pierce was capable of great acts of love as a mother.

— Kate Winslet

If vanity does not overthrow all our virtues, at least she makes them totter

— François De La Rochefoucauld

“To behold virtue in her proper form is nothing else but to contemplate morality stripped of all admixture of sensible things and of every…

— Immanuel Kant

“With insufferable vanity had she believed herself in the secret of everybody's feelings; with unpardonable arrogance proposed to arrange everybody's destiny. She was proved…

— Jane Austen

“I found that Nancy had a very advanced formulation of equity, ethics, and morals. It was as exceptional as it was different from the…

— Hilaire Hiler

“ “Virtue is its own reward.But then, the same could be said for sin.” —The Dowager Marchioness of Wallingham to the Countess of Berne…

— Elisa Braden

The woman had a humble, cringing manner. Of course, she had discovered that, having neither money nor virtue, she had better be humble if…

— Jean Rhys

Virtue is not malicious; wrong done her Is righted even when men grant they err.

— George Chapman

Her name rang in Will's mind like the chime of a bell; he wondered if any other name on earth had such an inescapable…

— Cassandra Clare

“She made a choice that day never to disregard the fact that people need to do things sometimes that others may not understand—and that…

— Patricia Strefling

Virtue would not go to such lengths if vanity did not keep her company

— François De La Rochefoucauld

“Mrs. Douglas could hardly do less than make a very great grievance of what was intended as a kindness. She hated a wedding; it…

— Emily Eden