“Love gets used up, Chastity. If it's not returned, it gets used up.” — Kristan Higgins Copy Share Image
Vanity bids all her sons be brave, and all her daughters chaste and courteous. — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Modesty is the chastity of merit, the virginity of noble souls. — Delphine de Girardin Copy Share Image
The sun, though it passes through dirty places, yet remains as pure as before. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Politeness of mind consists in thinking chaste and refined thoughts. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Filthy talk makes us feel comfortable with filthy action. But the one who knows how to control the tongue is prepared to… — Pope Clement I 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
“This was about getting inside her body, then her mind, before unlocking the chastity belt that was her heart, to steal the… — Lindsay J. Pryor 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
If a shameless woman expects to be defiled and then dies of her fierce love because you do not consent, will chastity… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Vanity, shame, and above all disposition, often make men brave and women chaste. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld 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
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
Thirteen virtues necessary for true success: temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquility, chastity, and humility. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
There cannot be self-restraint in the absence of desire: when there is no adversary, what avails thy courage? Hark, do not castrate… — Rumi Copy Share Image
When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to [profess] things he does not believe,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
When he was a young man he prayed constantly for chastity; but years later he realized that while his lips had been… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“All along the street, keys rattle in key-holes as each shop's ornate metal clothing is stripped away...It's as if, having unlocked the… — Michel Faber 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
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
She stands and moves within the invisible pentacle of her own virginity. She is an unbroken egg: she is a sealed vessel;… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe. It is… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
If we lived in a State where virtue was profitable, common sense would make us good, and greed would make us saintly.… — Robert Bolt 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
If an American is motoring on his own, he (the paragon of morality and chastity) will slow down and stop beside every… — Vladimir Mayakovsky Copy Share Image
“There was a direct, intimate connection between chastity and political orthodoxy. For how could the fear, the hatred, and the lunatic credulity… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Humility is the safeguard of chastity. In the matter of purity, there is no greater danger than not fearing the danger. For… — Philip Neri Copy Share Image
Although the progress of civilisation has undoubtedly contributed to assuage the fiercer passions of human nature, it seems to have been less… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Only through the Eucharist is it possible to live the heroic virtues of Christianity: charity, to the point of forgiving one's enemies;… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The most chaste woman may be the most voluptuous, if she truly loves. — Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau Copy Share Image
A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts. — Barbara Cartland Copy Share Image
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