Chaste Quotes

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He who, though dressed in fine apparel, exercises tranquillity, is quiet, subdued, restrained, chaste, and has ceased to find fault with all other beings, he… — Max Muller
Disgrace is a subtle, multi-layered story, as much concerned with politics as it is with the itch of male flesh. Coetzee's prose is chaste and… — Paul Bailey
A chaste generation would restore Paradise. — Amos Bronson Alcott
Nor will I then thy modest grace forget, Chaste Snow-drop, venturous harbinger of Spring, And pensive monitor of fleeting years! — William Wordsworth
My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language. — Edward Gibbon
Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Art is never chaste. It ought to be forbidden to ignorant innocents, never allowed into contact with those not sufficiently prepared. Yes, art is dangerous.… — Pablo Picasso
The eye of a man should be still more reverent before the rising of a young maiden than before the rising of a star. The… — Victor Hugo
When he was a young man he prayed constantly for chastity; but years later he realized that while his lips had been saying 'Oh Lord,… — C.S. Lewis
Yet, I didn't understand that she was intentionally disguising her feelings with sarcasm; that was usually the last resort of people who are timid and… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
I henceforth tread the world, chaste, temperate, an early riser, a steady grower. — Walt Whitman
Capricious and unfaithful, the king wished to be called Louis the Just and Louis the Chaste. Posterity will find a difficulty in understanding this character,… — Alexandre Dumas
Hello, Grace's parents. I'm Grace's boyfriend. Please notice the chaste distance between us. I am very responsible and have never had my tongue in your… — Maggie Stiefvater
Looking for an entirely reliable informant is like looking for a chaste mistress. — Cassandra Clare
So cute how you called out for Damen after conjuring that chaste little love scene in your head. — Alyson Noel
It's curious and ridiculous how much the gaze of a prudish and painfully chaste man touched by love can sometimes express and that precisely at… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
We believe in being honest, true, chaste, benevolent and in doing good to all men; indeed we may say that we follow the admonition of… — Joseph Smith, Jr.
I did not understand that she was hiding her feelings under irony, that this is usually the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
The real trouble is that 'kindness' is a quality fatally easy to attribute to ourselves on quite inadequate grounds. Everyone feels benevolent if nothing happens… — C.S. Lewis
Art is not chaste. Those ill prepared should be allowed no contact with art. Art is dangerous. If it is chaste, it is not art. — Pablo Picasso

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