We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition. — Alex Comfort Copy Share Image
Tolerance is a virtue, but like all virtues, when exaggerated, it transforms itself into a vice. We need to be careful of… — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
“To love at a distance and without hope; never to possess; to dream chastely of pale charms and impossible kisses extinguished on… — Huysmans Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
When you decide firmly to lead a clean life, chastity will not be a burden on you: it will be a crown… — Josemaria Escriva 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
I don't mind plain women being puritans. It is the only excuse they have for being plain. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
A blush is the sign which Nature hangs out to show where chastity and honor dwell. — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Copy Share Image
A nun of winter's sisterhood kisses not more religiously; the very ice of chastity is in them. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Discipline your sexuality for it has the proclivity to cause a productivity that can influence now and posterity.” — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha 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
I am a lover of the cause of Christ and of virtue, chastity, and an upright, steady course of conduct and a… — Joseph Smith, Jr 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
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
A Nuns Life: Chastity, poverty, and obedience. Wait, chastity?" BUMPER STICKER — Darynda Jones 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
It is amusing that a virtue is made of the vice of chastity; and it's a pretty odd sort of chastity at… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Chastity is not chastity in an old man, but a disability to be unchaste. — John Donne Copy Share Image
A woman may possess the wisdom and chastity of Minerva, and we give no heed to her, if she has a plain… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
“To hold the key is not just to possess power, but to carry the weight of responsibility for someone else’s surrender.” — Kemal Onur Güneş Copy Share Image
There needs not strength to be added to inviolate chastity; the excellency of the mind makes the body impregnable. — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
