Character Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

Virtue in women is perhaps a question of temperament.

— Honore de Balzac

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

— Elbert Hubbard

A true woman of virtue is one who will socialize with every man on earth, and doesn't share her body with any of them.

— Anonymous

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

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

However virtuous a woman may be, a compliment on her virtue is what gives her the least pleasure.

— Michel, 14th Prince of Ligne

Loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable; that one false step involves her in endless ruin; that her reputation is no less brittle…

— Jane Austen

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

Women are as they are; they necessarily have the defects of their virtues.

— Honore de Balzac

“The loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable - that one false step involves in her endless ruin - that her reputation is…

— Jane Austen

“That loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable-- that one false step involves her in endless ruin-- that her reputation is no less…

— Jane Austen