Virtuous Woman Quotes

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

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Women, Jewels, World

  Miguel de CERVANTES SAAVEDRA (1819). “Don Quixote de la Mancha”, p.100

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• 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.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Wall, Distance, Flower

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1842). “Don Quixote”, p.165

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

  Honore de Balzac

  Literature, Virtuous, Chaste

  "The Physiology of Marriage and Pierre Grassou".

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• 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.

  Brigham Young

  Daughter, Sex, Husband

  Brigham Young (1867). “Journal of Discourses”, p.268

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• 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.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Women, Eye, Heart

  Jeremy Taylor (1849). “The Great Exemplar of Sanctity and Holy Life Described in the History of the Life and Death of the Ever Blessed Jesus Christ: The Saviour of the World”, p.67

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• 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.

  George Chapman

  Men, Her Beauty, Littles

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

  William E. Gladstone

  Men, Association, Refined

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

  H. L. Mencken

  Art, Ymca, World

  Prejudices, First Series ch. 16 (1919)

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

  Susan B. Anthony

  Motivational, Women, Law

  In The Arena.

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

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Treasure, Safe, Generalities

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

  Buju Banton

  Wasting My Time, Hard, Pretense

  Song: I Wanna Be Loved, Album: 'Til Shiloh, 1995

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• 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.

  Lucretia Mott

  Inspiring, Justice, Feminist

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

  George Chapman

  Men, Virtuous, Values

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

  Belle Boyd

  Thank God, Bed, I Can

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• 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.

  Mary MacLane

  Children, Animal, Men

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• There is many a virtuous woman weary of her trade.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Virtuous, Trade, Weary

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

  Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

  Shunning, Overcoming, Danger

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

  William Law

  Wife, Found, Seducing

  Lyndon W. Cook, William Law (1994). “William Law”, Grandin Book Co

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• 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!

  James Sheridan Knowles

  Marriage, Brother, Children

  James Sheridan Knowles (1859). “The Dramatic Works of James Sheridan Knowles: The love chase. Woman's wit. The maid of Mariendorpt. Love. John of Procida. Old maids. The rose of Arragon. The secretary”, p.255

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• Modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.

  Jonathan Swift

  Men, May, Fool

  Jonathan Swift (1843). “Works: Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers Not Hitherto Published”, p.836

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• 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.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Wife, Teeth, New Family

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• 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.

  William Law

  Daughter, Liars, Men

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• 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.

  Henry Fielding

  Support, Vices, Insult

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

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Rely Upon, Amusement, Virtuous

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

  Mary MacLane

  Animal, Abnormal, May

  Mary MacLane (2014). “Tender Darkness: A Mary MacLane Sampler”, p.38, Petrarca Press

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