Character Quote by John Milton

Virtue were a kind of misery if fame were all the garland that crowned her.

— Owen Feltham

It all seemed a hollow sham now - that strict code, that conscientious virtue that condemned her to the sterile joys of pious women!…

— Emile Zola

Virtue is her own reward.

— John Dryden

Consider how impossible nobility of character would be if our goodness were untried innocence instead of victorious virtue.

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

Virtue has her heroes too As well as Fame and Fortune.

— Friedrich Schiller

Guilty she might be. But what human being was not? There were things in her past she needn't be ashamed of, things to be…

— John Jakes

Virtue herself is her own fairest reward.

— Silius Italicus

Virtue is despotic; life, reputation, every earthly good, must be surrendered at her voice. The law may seem hard, but it is the guardian…

— Jane Porter

She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation.

— Jane Austen

She might not be as beautiful, or as smart or as rich as all the rest of them. But she had her pride

— Tilly Bagshawe

“She would not be robbed of her ability to support herself, to do good work in the world, justly, compassionately.”

— Marge Piercy

She had her reward! - that reward of which no enemie could deprive her, which no slanders could make less precious - the eternal…

— Anonymous