quotations about chastity
'Tis Chastity, my brother, Chastity: She that has that, is clad in complete steel.
JOHN MILTON
Poems on Several Occasions
Chastity--you can carry it too far.
MARK TWAIN
speech at the dedication of the New York Engineers' Club, Dec. 9, 1907
Chastity is the cement of civilization and progress. Without it there is no stability in society, and without it one cannot attain the Science of Life.
MARY BAKER EDDY
Science and Health
Chastity consists in a fixed abhorrence of all forbidden sensual indulgences, a recollection of past impurities with shame and sorrow; a resolute guard over our thoughts, passions, and actions for the future; a steady abstinence from the distant approaches of evil desires and indecency.
REV. J. BEAUMONT
attributed, Day's Collacon
Get your motor running
Come on, dance with me
Your momma and your poppa always hassle me
Get you home by midnight but it's ten to three
Stop huffin' and a'puffin' like a shasta beast
I wanna pick the lock and break your chastity
I've got the combination and the master key
I'm a dancer and romancer not a monster beast
EAGLES OF DEATH METAL
"Shasta Beast"
There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULT
Maxims and Moral Reflections
I call not that virginity a virtue, which resideth only in the bodies integrity; much less if it be with a purpose of perpetually keeping it: for then it is a most inhumane vice. - But I call that Virginity a virtue which is willing and desirous to yield itself upon honest and lawful terms, when just reason requireth; and until then, is kept with a modest chastity of body and mind.
JOHN DONNE
Paradoxes and Problemes
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"
Release yourself upon me
Free the hounds of chastity
K.D. LANG
"Sexuality"
Chastity without charity is a lamp without oil.
SAINT BONAVENTURE
The Life of Christ
There is no chastity so agreeable to God as a faithful marriage.
IZARN
attributed, Day's Collacon
An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
Essays
My chastity's the jewel of our house,
Bequeathed down from many ancestors.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
All's Well That Ends Well
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
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
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
Many a girl will fight for her honor until the man is just about ready to give up.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
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 is the seal of grace.
LADY HUNTINGTON
attributed, Day's Collacon