Character Quote by John Milton

A man should never boast of his courage, nor a woman of her virtue, lest their doing so should be the cause of calling…

— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

Brave men do not boast nor bluster. Deeds, not words, speak for such.

— Antoine Rivarol

Men may boast of their great actions; but they are more often the effects of chance than of design.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Too often I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen.

— Louis L'Amour

His form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than archangel ruin'd, and th' excess Of glory obscur'd.

— John Milton

Virtue could see to do what virtue would By her own radiant light, though sun and moon Were in the flat sea sunk. And…

— John Milton

And what is faith, love, virtue unassayed Alone, without exterior help sustained?

— John Milton

To be ambitious of true honor and of the real glory and perfection of our nature is the very principle and incentive of virtue;…

— Philip Sidney

Glory is the shadow of virtue

— Latin Proverb

Chaperons, even in their days of glory, were almost never able to enforce morality; what they did was to force immorality to be discreet.…

— Judith Martin

“For her [Françoise], wealth was like a necessary condition without which virtue would lack both merit and charm. She made so little distinction between…

— Marcel Proust

... Arthur Gride, whose bleared eyes gloated only over the outward beauties, and were blind to the spirit which reigned within, evinced - a…

— Charles Dickens