Be proud Quote by George Farquhar

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

— Michel, 14th Prince of Ligne

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

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“If a woman is fair and amiable, she is praised for both qualities, but especially the former, by the bulk of mankind: if, on…

— Anne Brontë

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

— Jane Austen

All amusements to which virtuous women are not admitted, are, rely upon it, deleterious in their nature.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

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

— Elbert Hubbard

Deceit is the game of petty spirits, and that is by nature a woman's quality.

— Pierre Corneille

“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

A proud woman who has learned to submit carries all her pride to the reinforcement of her submission, and looks down with severe superiority…

— George Eliot

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

A woman has to demonstrate in every moment to be thirty times better than a man, to gain trust and to be considered. So,…

— Dacia Maraini

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

— Ninon de L'Enclos