What is chastity? How shall a man know if he is chaste? He shall not know it. We have heard of this… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
If thou dost marry, I'll give thee this plague for thy dowry: be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I have always espoused chastity except when one can no longer resist the temptation. — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
“If it’s a girl?” “Her name is Chastity, middle name Belt and we’re moving to a deserted Island with its own nuclear… — M.J. Fields Copy Share Image
The courage of a great many men, and the virtue of a great many women, are the effect of vanity, shame, and… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Thirteen virtues necessary for true success: temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquility, chastity, and humility. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
There is no true Latter-day Saint who would not rather bury a son or a daughter than to have him or her… — Heber J. Grant Copy Share Image
“All this talk about morality, chastity, prudence and the like are very antiquated notions created by some very old belief systems that… — Roberto Hogue Copy Share Image
It was with the utmost difficulty that ancient Rome could support the institution of six vestals; but the primitive church was filled… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
... chastity is not given once and for all like a wedding ring that is put on never to be taken off,… — Joanna Russ Copy Share Image
I believe rather, that everyone has sex before marriage then and now. I also dont believe that girls must respect themselves or… — Robert Pattinson Copy Share Image
By reason of its soporigous quality, lettuce ever was, and still continues the principal foundation of the universal tribe of Sallets, which… — John Evelyn Copy Share Image
The civilization of cities is breeding a new race of monks who have none of the original religious drive towards chastity, but… — Kylie Tennant Copy Share Image
Let us avoid debt as we would avoid a plague...Let every head of every household see to it that he has on… — J. Reuben Clark Copy Share Image
1) Temperance... drink not to elevation. (2) Silence... avoid trifling conversations. (3) Order: Let all your things have their places... (4) Resolution...… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats. You may strip off the outer ones without doing much… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Only someone as puffed up and demented as John Maynard Keynes, every left wing fascist's sainted mentor in this connection, could manage… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise isgone! it isgone, that… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
In Tibet there is no marriage, and there is no jealousy, yet we know that marriage is a much higher state. The… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The law of chastity is not a negative proposition, but a positive one because in its observance there are spiritual values that… — Antoine R. Ivins Copy Share Image
IT is an astonishing thing that historians will look back and puzzle over, that in the 21st century, American women were such… — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
“Chastity requires “an apprenticeship in self-mastery which is training in human freedom. The alternative is clear: either man governs his passions and… — Christopher West Copy Share Image
Priority is placed on the chastity of women. You can be corrupt, or a murderer and still hold your head up high… — Safak Pavey Copy Share Image
In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
“The church is often called a killjoy for protesting against sexual license. But the real killing of joy comes with the grabbing… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity, That, when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lacky her, Driving… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Discourses on humility are a source of pride in the vain and of humility in the humble. So those on scepticism cause… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Either we must speak as we dress, or dress as we speak. Why do we profess one thing and display another? The… — St. Jerome Copy Share Image
She stands and moves within the invisible pentacle of her own virginity. She is an unbroken egg: she is a sealed vessel;… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
The essence of chastity is not the suppression of lust, but the total orientation of one's life towards a goal. Without such… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Julius Caesar divorced his wife Pompeia, but declared at the trial that he knew nothing of what was alleged against her and… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Man is not equally moral at all hours, this is well known. If his morality is judged to be the capability for… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The greatest saint in the world is not he who prays most or fasts most; it is not he who gives alms,… — William Law Copy Share Image
Pride is the king of vices...it is the first of the pallbearers of the soul...other vices destroy only their opposite virtues, as… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Let us again clothe ourselves with these proved and sterling virtues - honesty, truthfulness, chastity, sobriety, temperance, industry, and thrift; let us… — J. Reuben Clark Copy Share Image
Fasting cleanses the soul, raises the mind, subjects one’s flesh to the spirit, renders the heart contrite and humble, scatters the clouds… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
The generative energy, which, when we are loose, dissipates and makes us unclean, when we are continent invigorates and inspires us. Chastity… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Do you have everything you need?" No. She needed blinders to keep from staring at him, and a box of tissue to… — Roxanne St. Claire Copy Share Image
