The career of a writer is comparable to that of a woman of easy virtue. You write first for pleasure, later for the pleasure of others and finally for money. - Marcel Achard If it were advertised that a troupe of men of easy virtue were to appear half-clothed upon a public stage, exposing their chests, thighs, arms and calves, the only women who would go to the entertainment would be a few delayed adolescents, a psychopathic old maid or two, and a guard of indignant members of the parish Ladies Aid. - H L Mencken

A constitutional democracy is in serious trouble if its citizenry does not have a certain degree of education and civic virtue. - Phillip E Johnson It is the State which educates its citizens in civic virtue, gives them a consciousness of their mission and welds them into unity. - Benito Mussolini He spent part of last year working in Canada, and I think it rubbed off on him, diminishing his innate American ability to celebrate the civic virtue of idiocy. - Sarah Vowell