Virtuous Woman Quotes

When a man loves a woman, he has to become worthy of her. The higher her virtue, the more noble her character, the more devoted she is to truth, justice, goodness, the more a man has to aspire to be worthy of her. The history of civilization could actually be written in terms of the level of its women.

A worthy woman personifies the truly noble and worthwhile attributes of life.

The modern challenge to motherhood is the eternal challenge--that of being a godly woman. The very phrase sounds strange in our ears. We never hear it now. We hear about every other type of women: beautiful women, smart women, sophisticated women, career women, talented women, divorced women. But so seldom to we hear of a godly woman--or of a godly man either, for that matter. I believe women come nearer to fulfilling their God-given function in the home than anywhere else.

She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other to virtue, is a much greater character than the ladies described in romance, whose whole occupation is to murder mankind with shafts from their quiver or their eyes.

Nothing lovelier can be found In woman, than to study household good, And good works in her husband to promote.

As long as she is wise and good, a girl has sufficient dowry.

There is many a virtuous woman weary of her trade.

A holy woman may be beautiful by the gift of nature, but she must not give occasion to lust. If beauty be hers, so far from setting it off she ought rather to obscure it.

Gentle and low, an excellent thing in woman.

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

If it were not somewhat fanciful to suppose that every human excellence is presented, as it were, in one kind of being, we might believe that the whole treasure of morality and order is enshrined in the female character.

If she be not honest, chaste, and true, there's no man happy.

Non-criminal sexual harassment on the job is not a problem for the virtuous woman except in the rarest of cases.

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

If there be any one whose power is in beauty, in purity, in goodness, it is a woman.

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

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.

Woman is generally so bad that the difference between a good and a bad woman scarcely exists.

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

A good woman is a hidden treasure; who discovers her will do well not to boast about it.

God's rarest blessing is, after all, a good woman!

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.

A beautiful woman delights the eye; a wise woman, the understanding; a pure one, the soul.