Virtuous

Famous quotes containing the word virtuous:

“The English Writers of Tragedy are possessed with a Notion, that when they represent a virtuous or innocent Person in Distress, they ought not to leave him till they have delivered him out of his Troubles, or made him triumph over his Enemies.”
—Joseph Addison (1672–1719)

“Be virtuous and you will be eccentric.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

“The sage belongs to the same obsolete repertory as the virtuous maiden and the enlightened monarch.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)