Chaste Quotes

89 Chaste quotes by 69 unique authors

Liberty is no longer the virgin, chaste and severe, to be fought for ... we have buried the putrid corpse of liberty ... the Italian… — Benito Mussolini
That’s why an artist must be a warrior and, like all warriors, artists over time acquire modesty and humility. They may, some of them, conduct… — Steven Pressfield
Well, I will find you twenty lascivious turtles ere one chaste man. — William Shakespeare
There are a few exceptions, however, to this rule that our projection of ourselves is lower than the facts of Nature, and the unicorn --… — Odell Shepard
To dream the impossible dream, to fight the unbeatable foe, to bear with unbearable sorrow, to run where the brave dare not go, to right… — Joe Darion
Frequent not the company of immodest persons, especially if they be also impudent, as is generally the case; ...these corrupted souls and infected hearts scarcely… — Saint Francis de Sales
A Roman divorced from his wife, being highly blamed by his friends, who demanded, "Was she not chaste? Was she not fair? Was she not… — Plutarch
Be humble in this life, that God may raise you up in the next. Be truly moderate and do not punish or condemn anyone immoderately.… — Stephen I of Hungary
Only the chaste man and the chaste woman are capable of true love. — Pope John Paul II
Chaste to her husband, frank to all beside, A teeming mistress, but a barren bride. — Alexander Pope
It hath evermore been the notorious badge of prostituted Strumpets and the lewdest Harlots, to ramble abroad to Plays, to Playhouses; whither no honest, chaste… — William Prynne
Command those that govern your house before all you household that they keep careful watch that all your household, within and without, be faithful, painstaking,… — Robert Grosseteste
The chaste woman who teases is worse than a streetwalker. — James Huneker
I should like, if I could, to leave a humble gift -- a bit of chaste prose that had caught up some noble moods. — Max Ehrmann
In Tibet there is no marriage, and there is no jealousy, yet we know that marriage is a much higher state. The Tibetans have not… — Swami Vivekananda
Queen and huntress, chaste and fair Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy silver chair, State in wonted manner keep: Hesperus entreats… — Ben Jonson
The learned are envied by the foolish; rich men by the poor; chaste women by adulteresses; and beautiful ladies by ugly ones. — Chanakya
Everything is possible for the believer. I have watched impure souls mad for physical love but turning what they know of such love into a… — John Climacus
She is a true wife who is clean (suci), expert, chaste, pleasing to the husband, and truthful. — Chanakya
Let men say we be men of good government, being governed, as the sea is, by our noble and chaste mistress the moon, under whose… — William Shakespeare
Take me to you, imprison me, for I, except you enthrall me, never shall be free, nor ever chaste, except you ravish me. — John Donne
A writer should be of as great probity and honesty as a priest of God. He is either honest or not, as a woman is… — Ernest Hemingway
I announce the great individual, fluid as Nature, chaste, affectionate, compassionate, fully armed; I announce a life that shall be copious, vehement, spiritual, bold, And… — Walt Whitman
People are tired of liberty. They have had a surfeit of it. Liberty is no longer a chaste and austere virgin.... Today's youth are moved… — Benito Mussolini
Clio may be the most austere and chaste of the Muses, but she has been known to come down informally from Mount Helicon in a… — Thornton Willis

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