quotations about chastity
There is no chastity so agreeable to God as a faithful marriage.
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attributed, Day's Collacon
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
Chastity without charity is a lamp without oil.
SAINT BONAVENTURE
The Life of Christ
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"
She stands and moves within the invisible pentacle of her own virginity. She is an unbroken egg: she is a sealed vessel; she has inside her a magic space the entrance to which is shut tight with a plug of membrane; she is a closed system; she does not know how to shiver.
ANGELA CARTER
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
Pure chastity is beauty to our souls, grace to our bodies, and peace to our desires.
SOLON
attributed, Day's Collacon
Chastity is a difficult, long term matter; one must wait patiently for it to bear fruit, for the happiness of loving kindness which it must bring. But at the same time, chastity is the sure way to happiness.
POPE JOHN PAUL II
Love and Responsibility
There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULT
Maxims and Moral Reflections
Chastity is oftener owing to diffidence and shame, than to fortitude of reason or virtue.
NORMAN MACDONALD
Maxims and Moral Reflections
So long as chastity is preserved, it is respected; it is despised only after having been lost.
JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU
Emile
Chastity is the seal of grace.
LADY HUNTINGTON
attributed, Day's Collacon
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
The girl who is chaste is probably a virgin; the girl who is chased is probably not.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
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"
You can put a chastity belt around the body, but you cannot put it around the mind.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips and Quotes
A nun of winter's sisterhood kisses not more religiously; the very ice of chastity is in them.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
As You Like It
Chastity--you can carry it too far.
MARK TWAIN
speech at the dedication of the New York Engineers' Club, Dec. 9, 1907
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
Beauty without chastity is like a mandrake apple, comely in show, but poisonous in taste.
THOMAS BLOUNT
The Academy of Eloquence