“Give me chastity and constancy, but not yet." St. Augustine. "Amen" Odette” — Marie Clair Copy Share Image
“... a secret and ardent stirring within the frozen chastity of the universal.” — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
We are much mistaken if we think that men are always brave from a principle of valor, or women chaste from a… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The six great gifts of an Irish girl are beauty, soft voice, sweet speech, wisdom, needlework, and chastity. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
For everyone, whatever his state--single, married, widowed, or priest-chastity is a triumphant affirmation of love. — Josemaria Escriva Copy Share Image
Liberty, like chastity, once lost, can never be regained in its original purity. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
There's something about all the people who are on a mission for purity and chastity, which I find very questionable. — Deniz Gamze Erguven Copy Share Image
Da mihi castitatem et continentiam, sed noli modo (Give me chastity and continence, but not just yet)! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Freedom isn’t in breaking chains—it’s in deciding which ones you choose to wear.” — Kemal Onur Güneş Copy Share Image
Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer. — George Santayana 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
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
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
So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
Fasting cleanses the soul, raises the mind, subjects one’s flesh to the spirit, renders the heart contrite and humble, scatters the clouds… — Saint Augustine 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
Chastity is a difficult long term matter, one must wait patiently for it to bear fruit for the happiness of loving kindness… — Pope John Paul II 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
Why, since man and woman were created for each other, had He made their desires so dissimilar? Why should one class of… — Madeleine Albright Copy Share Image
“Item, I've read that there's not a single virgin to be found in your country," said the statesman. "Where might you have… — Halldór Laxness Copy Share Image
[Benjamin Franklin]identified thirteen virtues he wanted to cultivate--temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquility, chastity and humility--and made… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
The law of chastity is not a negative proposition, but a positive one because in its observance there are spiritual values that… — Antoine R. Ivins Copy Share Image
Whatever he says, let his inner resolution be not to bear whatever comes to him, but to bear it 'for a reasonable… — Anonymous 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
Even if it does not conform to todays fashion, we can make the decision to remain chaste, to keep ourselves whole for… — Meicee Copy Share Image
If thou dost marry, I'll give thee this plague for thy dowry: be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“If it’s a girl?” “Her name is Chastity, middle name Belt and we’re moving to a deserted Island with its own nuclear… — M.J. Fields Copy Share Image
I have always espoused chastity except when one can no longer resist the temptation. — Edna O'Brien 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
Chastity more rarely follows fear, or a resolution, or a vow, than it is the mere effect of lack of appetite and,… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable. — St. Jerome Copy Share Image
We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition. — Alex Comfort 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
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
Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Pure chastity is beauty to our souls, grace to our bodies, and peace to our desires. — Solon Copy Share Image
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