Chastity Quotes

Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.

— Jeremy Taylor

Beauty is the flower of chastity.

— Zeno of Elea

Chastity is curable, if detected early.

— Woody Allen

Modesty and chastity are twins

— Anna Brownell Jameson

Lord, Make me chaste, but not yet

— St Augustine

Of chastity, the ornaments are chaste.

— William Shakespeare

Chastity is the ermine of woman's soul.

— Elizabeth I

“I love the forest.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The sun, though it passes through dirty places, yet remains as pure as before.

— Francis Bacon

Politeness of mind consists in thinking chaste and refined thoughts.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity.

— Tertullian

Oh Lord, give me chastity, but do not give it yet.

— Saint Augustine

Chastity, like piety, is a uniform grace.

— Samuel Richardson

Modesty is the chastity of merit, the virginity of noble souls.

— Delphine de Girardin

“Love gets used up, Chastity. If it's not returned, it gets used up.”

— Kristan Higgins

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

— Laurence Sterne

To acquire and preserve the virtue of chastity, we have need of a good and experienced confessor.

— Philip Neri

“Welshmen,” she exclaimed. “Any one of them could talk his way past a chastity belt.”

— Lisa Kleypas

There needs not strength to be added to inviolate chastity; the excellency of the mind makes the body impregnable.

— Philip Sidney

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

— Samuel Johnson

Modesty and humility are the sobriety of the mind, as temperance and chastity are of the body.

— Benjamin Whichcote

Obedience to the law of chastity will increase our happiness in mortality and make possible our progress in eternity.

— David A. Bednar

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

'Tis Chastity, my brother, Chastity: She that has that, is clad in complete steel

— John Milton

It is amusing that a virtue is made of the vice of chastity; and it's a pretty odd sort of chastity at…

— Voltaire

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

I have somewhere heard or read the frank confession of a Benedictine abbot: "My vow of poverty has given me a hundred…

— Edward Gibbon

Chastity is the most unpopular of the Christian virtues. There is no getting away from it; the old Christian rule is, "Either…

— C. S. Lewis

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

Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity, insert into their ears the word of God, tie the yoke of Christ…

— Tertullian

Extremes, though contrary, have the like effects. Extreme heat kills, and so extreme cold: extreme love breeds satiety, and so extreme hatred;…

— George Chapman

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

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

There is but one love of Jesus, as there is but one person in the poor - Jesus. We take vows of…

— Mother Teresa

“Failure to put the relationship on a slower timetable may result in an act that was never intended in the first place.…

— James C. Dobson

I call not that virginity a virtue, which resideth only in the bodies integrity; much less if it be with a purpose…

— John Donne

After each failure, ask forgiveness, pick yourself up, and try again. Very often what God first helps us toward is not the…

— C. S. Lewis

The missionary is no longer a man, a conscience. He is a corpse, in the hands of a confraternity, without family, without…

— Paul Gauguin

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

It strikes me often while I am in Iran that were Christian evangelicals to take a tour of Iran today, they might…

— Hooman Majd