"A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue."

Virtue, Divorce

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"A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue."

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"That I may carry on what I have begun, that I may do good, that I may be one day a grand and encouraging example that it may be said that there was finally some little happiness resulting from this suffering which I have undergone and this virtue to which I have returned!"

Victor Hugo, French Author

Virtue, Happiness, Suffering, Example

"Virtue could see to do what Virtue would by her own radiant light, though sun and moon where in the flat sea sunk."

John Milton, English Poet

Virtue, Light, Moon, Sea

"What better time is there in our lives than when the two best of virtues-innocent gaiety and a boundless yearning for affection-are our sole objects of pursuit?"

Leo Tolstoy, Russian Novelist

Virtue, Innocence, Love, Pursuit

"Patience that blending of moral courage with physical timidity."

Thomas Hardy, English Novelist

Virtue, Patience, Morality, Courage, Character

"Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"Remember, truth is indestructible, virtue is indestructible, purity is indestructible."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

Virtue, Truth, Power, Inspirational, Wisdom

"The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue."

John Kenneth Galbraith, American Economist

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"Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?"

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

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"The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it."

Money,

"She said she knew we were safe with you, and always would be, because once, when she asked you to, you'd given up the thing you most wanted." Archer received this strange communication in silence. His eyes remained unseeingly fixed on the thronged sunlit square below the window. At length he said in a low voice: "She never asked me."

Relationship, Loyalty, Trust, Gratitude, Memory

"What she craved and really felt herself entitled to was a situation in which the noblest attitude should also be the easiest."

Desire, Decision, Preference, Choice

"Do you know, I began to see what marriage is for. It's to keep people away from each other. Sometimes I think that two people who love each other can be saved from madness only by the things that come between them-children, duties, visits, bores, relations-the things that protect married people from each other. We've been too close together-that has been our sin. We've seen the nakedness of each other's souls."

Marriage, Protection, Love, Observation

"When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it doesn't take half as long to say."

Time, People

"Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before."

Art,

"Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope."

Life, Bed

"Their long years together had shown him that it did not so much matter if marriage was a dull duty, as long as it kept the dignity of duty: lapsing from that, it became a mere battle of ugly appetites."

Duty, Marriage, Dignity, Restraint

"To know when to be generous and when firm-that is wisdom."

Wisdom, Generosity, Decision, Balance

"If you're as detached as that, why does the obsolete institution of marriage survive with you?"Oh, it still has its uses. One couldn't be divorced without it."

Marriage, Detachment, Relationship, Society