quotations about chastity
Chastity is a virtue with some, but with many almost a vice. These people abstain, to be sure: but the bitch Sensuality leers enviously out of all that they do. This restless beast follows them even into the heights of their virtue and into the depths of their cold spirit.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
Essays
Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc. In a word, God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.
G. K. CHESTERTON
Tremendous Trifles
My chastity's the jewel of our house,
Bequeathed down from many ancestors.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
All's Well That Ends Well
There is no chastity so agreeable to God as a faithful marriage.
IZARN
attributed, Day's Collacon
In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between the sexes which shocked austere moralists.
HAVELOCK ELLIS
Little Essays of Love and Virtue
It must be hard sometimes
To stand behind your chastity
And I wish that I could be the one
But it's not me, I'll never set you free
GOOD RIDDANCE
"Holding On"
Many a girl will fight for her honor until the man is just about ready to give up.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
My poor belated chastity fell foul
Of grown up games
ELVIS COSTELLO
"Little Atoms"
So long as chastity is preserved, it is respected; it is despised only after having been lost.
JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU
Emile
I am no Bible binner
Petty sinner or scandal spinner
But you can stuff your chastity
Your "wait and see", your "not ready"
'Cause we are vigilantes
We're on the streets
We're running free
And you could have me anytime
Just flutter those come to bed eyes
WILD BEASTS
"He the Colossus"
Nothing makes a woman more esteemed by the opposite sex than chastity; whether it be that we always prize those most who are hardest to come at, or that nothing besides chastity, with its collateral attendants, truth, fidelity, and constancy, gives a man a property in the person he loves, and consequently endears her to him above all things.
JOSEPH ADDISON
The Spectator, Jun. 23, 1711
There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULT
Maxims and Moral Reflections
Release yourself upon me
Free the hounds of chastity
K.D. LANG
"Sexuality"
Celibacy, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies in singularity.
JEREMY TAYLOR
The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor
Chastity without charity is a lamp without oil.
SAINT BONAVENTURE
The Life of Christ
Beauty without chastity is like a mandrake apple, comely in show, but poisonous in taste.
THOMAS BLOUNT
The Academy of Eloquence
You can put a chastity belt around the body, but you cannot put it around the mind.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips and Quotes
The price the Virgin demanded was purity, and the way the educators of Catholic children have interpreted this for nearly two thousand years is sexual chastity. Impurity, we were taught, follows from many sins, but all are secondary to the principal impulse of the devil in the soul--lust.
MARINA WARNER
Alone of All Her Sex
Chastity is the seal of grace.
LADY HUNTINGTON
attributed, Day's Collacon