Female Virtue Quotes

Silence is the greatest ornament of the woman.

Ambition of military fame, ambition over female virtue, was the duplicate ruling passion of his life.

A lady of honor may be raped once, but it strengthens her virtue.

Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.

Pity is woman's sweetest charm.

Moral severity in women is only a dress or paint which they use to set off their beauty.

The true worth of a race must be measured by the character of its womanhood.

Glory to Women! They weave and entwine heavenly roses into an earthly life.

Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families; and in families not regulated by that pervading influence which sanctifies while it enhances... in short, by the influence of Woman, in the lofty character of Wife, they may be expected with confidence, and must be borne with philosophy.

I do not propose to our British ladies, that they should turn Amazons in the service of their sovereign, nor so much as let their nails grow for the defence of their country. The men will take the work of the field off their hands, and show the world, that English valour cannot be matched when it is animated by English beauty.

If you destroy delicacy and a sense of shame in a young girl, you deprave her very fast.

The passion for praise, which is so very vehement in the fair sex, produces excellent effects in women of sense, who desire to be admired for that which only deserves admiration.

Loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable; that one false step involves her in endless ruin; that her reputation is no less brittle than it is beautiful; and that she cannot be too much guarded in her behaviour towards the undeserving of the other sex.

Silence gives the proper grace to women

A woman in love has full intelligence of her power; the more virtuous she is, the more effective her coquetry.

...idea at play here is that of “morality.” When young women are taught about morality, there’s not often talk of compassion, kindness, courage, or integrity. There is, however, a lot of talk about hymens

When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.

There is many a virtuous woman weary of her trade.

Men are virtuous because women are; women are virtuous from necessity.

I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.

The path of a good woman is indeed strewn with flowers; but they rise behind her steps, not before them.

I am not elevating women to sainthood, nor am I suggesting that all women share the same views, or that all women are good and all men bad.

Modesty is the richest ornament of a woman ... the want of it is her greatest deformity.

Silence and chaste reserve is woman's genuine praise, and to remain quiet within the house.