Character Quote by Lisa Kleypas

“A girl can stand just so much virtue.”

— Loraine Despres

“I am she that men call Modesty. Virgin I am and ever shall be. Not for me the fruitful fields and the fertile vineyard.…

— Virginia Woolf

“Nothing becomes some women more than the prick of ambition. Love, on the contrary, may make them very dull.”

— Françoise Sagan

“I’m no delicate flower, Warren. I’m a woman. A woman who wants you to want her so bad, you can’t hold back.”

— Maggie Wells

“Virtue . . . is the same for men and for women.”

— Antisthenes

“A woman wants to be adored but she doesn’t want reverence.”

— Liane Moriarty

“Without virtue, man is most unholy and savage, and worst in regard to sex and eating.”

— Aristotle

“She looks very virtuous and very melancholy." "Virtue is like the precious odors, most fragrant when it is crushed.”

— Baroness Emma Orczy

“Had I life to live over, I see now where I could do more; but neighbour, believe me, my highest aspiration is to be…

— Gene Stratton-Porter

“Men demand much more than you think," she would tell her enigmatically. "There's a lot of cooking, a lot of sweeping, a lot of…

— Gabriel García Márquez

“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

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

— Jane Austen