Chaste Quotes

89 Chaste quotes by 69 unique authors

Love is a great thing...which alone maketh every burden light.. Love is watchful, and while sleeping, still keeps watch; though fatigued, it is not weary;… — Thomas a Kempis
Make me chaste and To what excesses will men not go for the sake of a religion in which they believe so little and which… — Jean de la Bruyere
Too chaste an adolescence makes for a dissolute old age. It is doubtless easier to give up something one has known than something one imagines. — Andre Gide
Staying chaste until marriage, a commandment of my faith, was one of the most difficult challenges of my young life. I had a powerful sense… — Feisal Abdul Rauf
I have been photographing our toilet, that glossy enameled receptacle of extraordinary beauty. Here was every sensuous curve of the human figure divine but minus… — Edward Weston
Aristotle ... imputed this symphony of the heavens ... this music of the spheres to Pythagorus. ... But Pythagoras alone of mortals is said to… — John Milton
Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age. — Andre Gide
Would I describe a preacher, I would express him simple, grave, sincere; In doctrine uncorrupt; in language plain, And plain in manner; decent, solemn, chaste,… — William Cowper
A nude by Degas is chaste. But his women wash in tubs!... — Paul Gauguin
A chaste and lucid style is indicative of the same personal traits in the author. — Hosea Ballou
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

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