Virtuous

Famous quotes containing the word virtuous:

“Jesus would recommend you to pass the first day of the week rather otherwise than you pass it now, and to seek some other mode of bettering the morals of the community than by constraining each other to look grave on a Sunday, and to consider yourselves more virtuous in proportion to the idleness in which you pass one day in seven.”
—Frances Wright (1795–1852)

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

“Dost thou think because thou art virtuous there shall be no more cakes and ale?”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)