Chastity is oftener owing to diffidence and shame, than to fortitude of reason or virtue. — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
“Chastity—the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions, he added parenthetically, out of Remy de Gourmont .” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Science confounds everything; it gives to the flowers an animal appetite, and takes away from even the plants their chastity. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Chastity is the cement of civilization and progress. Without it there is no stability in society, and without it one cannot attain… — Mary Baker Eddy Copy Share Image
Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
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
“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
Extremes, though contrary, have the like effects. Extreme heat kills, and so extreme cold: extreme love breeds satiety, and so extreme hatred;… — George Chapman Copy Share Image
Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity, insert into their ears the word of God, tie the yoke of Christ… — Tertullian 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
It is amusing that a virtue is made of the vice of chastity; and it's a pretty odd sort of chastity at… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
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 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
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
Valentine had long ago observed that in a society that expected chastity and fidelity, like Lusitania, the adolescents who controlled and channeled… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“The little respect paid to chastity in the male world is, I am persuaded, the grand source of many of the physical… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
But one thing is certain: the commandments have not changed. Let there be no mistake about that. Right is still right. Wrong… — M. Russell Ballard Copy Share Image
I call not that virginity a virtue, which resideth onely in the bodies integrity; much less if it be with a purpose… — John Donne Copy Share Image
The eye of a man should be still more reverent before the rising of a young maiden than before the rising of… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Well, in that hit you miss. She'll not be hit With Cupid's arrow. She hath Dian's wit, And, in strong proff of… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Chastity is the lily of virtues, and makes men almost equal to Angels. Everything is beautiful in accordance with its purity. Now… — Saint Francis de Sales 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
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
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
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 the briefest of moments his eyes sparkled before dimming again. “However much I would love to get into a discussion about… — Michelle Smart Copy Share Image
Chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition, a greater foe to natural temperance even than unintellectual sensuality; it strikes at the root… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
You carry your snare everywhere and spread your nets in all places. You allege that you never invited others to sin. You… — Saint John Chrysostom 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
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
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
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
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
The Church has no double standard of morality. The moral code of heaven for both men and women is complete chastity before… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Obedience is a consecration of the heart, chastity of the body, and poverty of all worldly goods to the Love and Service… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
“Giselle Speakmon’s parents are totally devout. When I get in there and we hook up, there won’t be any cribs for me… — Kristen Ashley 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
Now to understand the significance of chastity within us, we have to know that chastity is the foundation of all dharmas. Unless… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
People do not expect to find chastity in a whorehouse. Why, then, do they expect to find honesty and humanity in government,… — H. L. Mencken 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
