Virtuous Woman Quotes

There is many a virtuous woman weary of her trade.

Let no man under value the price of a virtuous woman's counsel.

No pretense stop wasting my time. A virtuous woman is really hard to find.

Joseph has lately endeavored to seduce my wife, and has found her a virtuous woman.

Let no man value at a little price A virtuous woman's counsel; her winged spirit Is feathered often times with heavenly words, And, like her beauty, ravishing and pure.

Sexual harassment on the job is not a problem for virtuous women.

The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable.

The truth is . . . that the great artists of the world are never puritans, and seldom ever ordinarily respectable. No virtuous man - that is, virtuous in the YMCA sense - has ever painted a picture worth looking at, or written a symphony worth hearing, or a book worth reading, and it is highly improbable that the thing has ever been done by a virtuous woman.

The generality of virtuous women are like hidden treasures, they are safe only because nobody has sought after them.

The virtuous woman must be treated like a relic - adored, but not handled; she should be guarded and prized, like a fine flower-garden, the beauty and fragrance of which the owner allows others to enjoy only at a distance, and through iron walls.

I thank god that I can say on my death bed that I am a virtuous woman.

Every virtuous woman desires a husband to whom she can look for guidance and protection through this world. God has placed this desire in woman's nature. It should be respected by the stronger sex. Any man who takes advantage of this, and humbles a daughter of Eve to rob her of her virtue, and cast her off dishonored and defiled, is her destroyer, and is responsible to God for the deed.

All virtuous women, like tortoises, carry their house on their heads, and their chappel in their heart, and their danger in their eye, and their souls in their hands, and God in all their actions.

The virtuous woman flees from danger; she trusts more to her prudence in shunning it than in her strength to overcome it.

There is no jewel in the world so valuable as a chaste and virtuous woman.

The most virtuous women have within them something that is never chaste.

Non-criminal sexual harassment on the job is not a problem for the virtuous woman except in the rarest of cases.

Save the love we pay to heaven, there is none purer, holier, than that a virtuous woman feels for him she would cleave through life to. Sisters part from sisters, brothers from brothers, children from their parents, but such woman from the husband of her choice, never!

There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.

Modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.

There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.

The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation, because in the degradation of women, the very fountains of life are poisoned at their source.

Nothing more surely cultivates and embellishes a man than association with refined and virtuous women.

Some virtuous women are too liberal in their insults to a frail sister; but virtue can support itself without borrowing any assistance from the vices of other women.

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

Sarah lied about me. I never made the offer which she said I did. I will not advise you to break up your family - unless it were asked of me. Then I would council you to get a bill from your wife and marry a virtuous woman - and a new family but if you do not do it I shall never throw it in your teeth.

My wife would not speak evil of ... anyone ... without cause. Joseph is a liar and not she. That Smith admired and lusted after many men's wives and daughters, is a fact, but they could not help that. They or most of them considered his admiration an insult, and treated him with scorn. In return for this scorn, he generally managed to blacken their reputations - see the case of... Mrs. Pratt, a good, virtuous woman.

I can think of nothing in the world like the utter littleness, the paltriness, the contemptibleness, the degradation, of the woman who is tied down under a roof with a man who is really nothing to her; who wears the man’s name, who bears the man’s children — who plays the virtuous woman. . . . May I never, I say, become that abnormal merciless animal, that deformed monstrosity — a virtuous woman.

May I never, I say, become that abnormal, merciless animal, that deformed monstrosity - a virtuous woman.