Virtuous

Famous quotes containing the word virtuous:

“There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)

“She was so overcome by the splendor of his achievement that she took him into the closet and selected a choice apple and delivered it to him, along with an improving lecture upon the added value and flavor a treat took to itself when it came without sin through virtuous effort. And while she closed with a Scriptural flourish, he “hooked” a doughnut.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

“The most virtuous women have something within them, something that is never chaste.”
—Honoré De Balzac (1799–1850)