Modesty is the chastity of merit, the virginity of noble souls. — Delphine de Girardin Copy Share Image
“Give me chastity and constancy, but not yet." St. Augustine. "Amen" Odette” — Marie Clair Copy Share Image
It's like a convent, the hospital. You leave the world behind and take vows of poverty, chastity, obedience. — Carolyn Wheat Copy Share Image
Love presses my head with carefully placed feet, wretch that he is, until he has taught me to detest chaste girls, and… — Propertius Copy Share Image
Too chaste an adolescence makes for a dissolute old age. It is doubtless easier to give up something one has known than… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
Chastity prays for me, piety sings, Innocence sweetens my last black breath, Modesty hides my thighs in her wings, And all the… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
This detachment (poverty, chastity, etc.) must not be mere amputation; everything which is shaken off must be simultaneously found again at a… — Gabriel Marcel Copy Share Image
Rich men without convictions are more dangerous in modern society than poor women without chastity. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Love clamors far more incessantly and passionately at a closed gate than an open one! — Marie Corelli Copy Share Image
I don't mind plain women being puritans. It is the only excuse they have for being plain. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
These practices - non-killing, truthfulness, non-stealing, chastity, and non-receiving - are to be practised by every man, woman, and child; by every… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
What we take for virtue is often but an assemblage of various ambitions and activities that chance, or our own astuteness, have… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
[Christians] practiced moderation and chastity in marriage, for example, and Galen was puzzled at how they were able to do so. His… — Larry Hurtado Copy Share Image
The spring without a leaf to toss, bare and bright like a virgin fierce in her chastity, scornful in her purity, was… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“If our elaborate and dominating bodies are given to us to be denied at every turn, if our nature is always wrong… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Chastity ... has, even now, a religious importance in a woman's life, and has so wrapped itself round with nerves and instincts… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
When chaste people need body or mind to resort to action or thought, they find steel in their muscles or knowledge in… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
We ought to love temperance for itself, and in obedience to God who has commanded it and chastity; but what I am… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
It strikes me often while I am in Iran that were Christian evangelicals to take a tour of Iran today, they might… — Hooman Majd Copy Share Image
“It took a couple of months before we were both convinced there were no rules about sexual activities in Hell and our… — Steven L. Peck Copy Share Image
Nowadays, by contrast, Christianity specialises in soft-focus mood music; its threats of hell, its demand for poverty and chastity, its doctrine that… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
“Jerome was a marvelous advocate of chastity: yet hear his confession: “O, how often have I thought myself to be in the… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The second request of the very pure soul is to see the coming of the Father's kingdom (cf. Mt. 6:10). What this… — John Cassian Copy Share Image
So dear to heav'n is saintly chastity, That when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving… — John Milton Copy Share Image
There is but one love of Jesus, as there is but one person in the poor - Jesus. We take vows of… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
“Failure to put the relationship on a slower timetable may result in an act that was never intended in the first place.… — James C. Dobson Copy Share Image
“... a secret and ardent stirring within the frozen chastity of the universal.” — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
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