Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Love clamors far more incessantly and passionately at a closed gate than an open one! — Marie Corelli Copy Share Image
“The beauty and music...It is a call...And some are not strong.” — Richard Llewellyn Copy Share Image
Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity. — Geoffrey Chaucer Copy Share Image
Vanity bids all her sons be brave, and all her daughters chaste and courteous. — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
“Love gets used up, Chastity. If it's not returned, it gets used up.” — Kristan Higgins Copy Share Image
The way to chastity is not to struggle directly with incontinent thoughts but to avert the thoughts by some imployment, or by… — Isaac Newton 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
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
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
“Perhaps fashion is just a reinforcement of a lady’s chastity, in hopes that the interested party may lose interest and abandon any… — Mackenzi Lee Copy Share Image
I get a little angry about this highhanded scrapping of the look of things. What else have we to go by? How… — Margaret Culkin Banning 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
For centuries, divorce in the West was a male tool of control - a legislative chastity belt designed to ensure that a… — Amanda Foreman Copy Share Image
The price the Virgin demanded was purity, and the way the educators of Catholic children have interpreted this for nearly two thousand… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
In traditional societies, we have a long legacy of men controlling the body and mind of women. Such societies have valorised motherhood… — Taslima Nasrin Copy Share Image
Much of the modern resistance to chastity comes from men's belief that they 'own' their bodies—those vast and perilous estates, pulsating with… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer; there… — George Santayana 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
“A clean heart is a free heart. A free heart can love Christ with an undivided love in chastity, convinced that nothing… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Be not so set upon poetry, as to be always poring on the passionate and measured pages. Let not what should be… — Cotton Mather Copy Share Image
“If the Pentateuch is not inspired in its astronomy, geology, geography, history or philosophy, if it is not inspired concerning slavery, polygamy,… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The three monotheism share a series of identical forms of aversion: hatred of reason and intelligence; hatred of freedom; hatred of all… — Michel Onfray Copy Share Image
“I’ve always found the idea of 'saving' your virginity intriguing: it’s not as if we’re packing our Saran-wrapped hymens away in the… — Jessica Valenti 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
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
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
Chastity, non-injury, forgiving even the greatest enemy, truth, faith in the Lord, these are all different Vrittis. Be not afraid if you… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
