Character Quote by Michel de Montaigne

Virtue shuns ease as a companion. It demands a rough and thorny path.

— Michel de Montaigne

Virtue is the daughter of Religion; Repentance, her adopted child,--a poor orphan who, without the asylum which she offers, would not know where to…

— Sophie Swetchine

Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.

— Alexander Pope

Love Virtue, she alone is free, She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the sphery chime; Or, if Virtue feeble were, Heav'n…

— John Milton

Virtue's guard is labor; ease, her sleep.

— Torquato Tasso

Virtue is her own reward.

— John Dryden

She abounds with lucious faults.

— Quintilian

Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.

— Quintilian

Well, but you affirm that virtue is only elicited by temptation; - and you think that a woman cannot be too little exposed to…

— Anne Bronte

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 has her heroes too As well as Fame and Fortune.

— Friedrich Schiller

She has a choice. She can either accept a life of misery or she can struggle against it. And she chooses to struggle...she fails…

— Kate Winslet