The most chaste woman may be the most voluptuous, if she…

A beautiful and chaste woman is the perfect workmanship of God, and the true glory of angels, the rare miracle of earth, and the…

— Georg Hermes

Only the chaste man and the chaste woman are capable of true love.

— Pope John Paul II

The chaste woman who teases is worse than a streetwalker.

— James Huneker

Vanity bids all her sons be brave, and all her daughters chaste and courteous.

— Laurence Sterne

Lord, Make me chaste, but not yet

— St Augustine

Love presses my head with carefully placed feet, wretch that he is, until he has taught me to detest chaste girls, and to live…

— Propertius

What we take for virtue is often but an assemblage of various ambitions and activities that chance, or our own astuteness, have arranged in…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

If you would be chaste, you must be temperate.

— Henry David Thoreau

If thou dost marry, I'll give thee this plague for thy dowry: be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt…

— William Shakespeare

When he was a young man he prayed constantly for chastity; but years later he realized that while his lips had been saying 'Oh…

— Anonymous

Too chaste an adolescence makes for a dissolute old age. It is doubtless easier to give up something one has known than something one…

— Andre Gide

We are much mistaken if we think that men are always brave from a principle of valor, or women chaste from a principle of…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Of chastity, the ornaments are chaste.

— William Shakespeare

The eye of a man should be still more reverent before the rising of a young maiden than before the rising of a star.…

— Victor Hugo

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

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld