Chastity, like piety, is a uniform grace.

Chastity, like honesty, is a civic as well as a personal virtue. When a society loses chastity, it begins to destroy itself.

— J. William Schickel

beauty is like piety--you cannot run and read it; tranquility and constancy, with, now-a-days, an easy chair, are needed.

— Herman Melville

Morals are an acquirement - like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis - no man is born with them.

— Mark Twain

Chastity prays for me, piety sings, Innocence sweetens my last black breath, Modesty hides my thighs in her wings, And all the deadly virtues…

— Dylan Thomas

The gospel chargeth us with piety towards God, and justice and charity to men, and temperance and chastity in reference to ourselves.

— John Tillotson

I get a little angry about this highhanded scrapping of the look of things. What else have we to go by? How else can…

— Margaret Culkin Banning

Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism.

— Anton Chekhov

Love clamors far more incessantly and passionately at a closed gate than an open one!

— Marie Corelli

It is not always from valor or from chastity that men are brave, and women chaste.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.

— Saint Augustine

Chastity is oftener owing to diffidence and shame, than to fortitude of reason or virtue.

— Norm MacDonald

The soul whose bosom lust did never touch Is God's fair bride; and maiden's souls are such.

— Tertullian

But there is a beauty every girl has—a gift from God, as pure as the sunlight, and as sacred as life. It is a…

— David O. McKay

It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife.

— Samuel Johnson

Chastity is a virtue with some, but with many it is almost a vice.

— Friedrich Nietzsche