“Welshmen,” she exclaimed. “Any one of them could talk his way past a chastity belt.” — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The sun, though it passes through dirty places, yet remains as pure as before. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
To acquire and preserve the virtue of chastity, we have need of a good and experienced confessor. — Philip Neri Copy Share Image
Modesty is the chastity of merit, the virginity of noble souls. — Delphine de Girardin Copy Share Image
I am neither a homosexual nor a eunuch, nor have I ever taken any vows of chastity. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
'Tis Chastity, my brother, Chastity: She that has that, is clad in complete steel — John Milton Copy Share Image
I come from a very long line of very superstitious Romanian women who hold on to their chastity probably way too long. — Lisa Kennedy Montgomery Copy Share Image
Too chaste an adolescence makes for a dissolute old age. It is doubtless easier to give up something one has known than… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
Coffee is not as necessary to ministers of the reformed faith as to Catholic priests. The latter are not allowed to marry,… — Elisabeth Charlotte d'Orleans Copy Share Image
It's all love or sex these days. Friendship is almost as quaint and outdated a notion as chastity. Soon friends will be… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Let us at least say of religion that it means that every part of the body is infused with mind, not that… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
You've really got to wear a chastity belt in Washington to preserve your journalistic virginity. Once the secretary of state invites you… — I. F. Stone Copy Share Image
“Chastity is the flowering of man; and what are called Genius, Heroism, Holiness, and the like, are but various fruits which succeed… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The gospel chargeth us with piety towards God, and justice and charity to men, and temperance and chastity in reference to ourselves. — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
Reading a novel in which all characters illustrate patience, hard work, chastity, and delayed gratification could be a pretty dull experience. — Thomas Perry Copy Share Image
I have somewhere heard or read the frank confession of a Benedictine abbot: "My vow of poverty has given me a hundred… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
So dear to heav'n is saintly chastity, That when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving… — John Milton Copy Share Image
There is but one love of Jesus, as there is but one person in the poor - Jesus. We take vows of… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
The missionary is no longer a man, a conscience. He is a corpse, in the hands of a confraternity, without family, without… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
O Lord and Master of my life, take from me the spirit of sloth, meddling, lust of power, and idle talk. But… — Ephrem the Syrian Copy Share Image
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means, at the… — C. S. Lewis 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
Our vow of chastity is nothing but our undivided love for Christ in chastity, then we proceed to the freedom of poverty-poverty… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
“Give me chastity and constancy, but not yet." St. Augustine. "Amen" Odette” — Marie Clair Copy Share Image
It is difficult to believe in a religion that places such a high premium on chastity and virginity. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Drive the women from the bed just as you drove them from the choir; a eunuch sings in Rome, and the priests… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
Poverty, chastity, and obedience are extremely difficult. But there are always the graces if you will pray for them. — Kathryn Hulme Copy Share Image
Who doth desire that chaste his wife should be, first be he true, for truth doth truth deserve. — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
It is Chastity, my brother. She that has that is clad in complete steel. — John Milton Copy Share Image
