Chastity Quotes
157 quotes by 110 authors
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Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
— Saint Augustine
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The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.
— Samuel Butler
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Extremes, though contrary, have the like effects. Extreme heat kills, and so extreme cold: extreme love breeds satiety, and so extreme hatred; and too violent…
— George Chapman
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Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism.
— Anton Chekhov
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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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This is the sad bed of chosen chastity because you are miles and mountains away.
— Erica Jong
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Science confounds everything; it gives to the flowers an animal appetite, and takes away from even the plants their chastity.
— Joseph Joubert
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It is Chastity, my brother. She that has that is clad in complete steel.
— John Milton
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If thou dost marry, I'll give thee this plague for thy dowry: be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not…
— William Shakespeare
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A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.
— Barbara Cartland
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There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet.
— Eric Hoffer
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Chastity is not chastity in an old man, but a disability to be unchaste.
— John Donne
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Be warm, be pure, be amorous, but be chaste.
— Lord Byron
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Self-denial is not a virtue; it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.
— George Bernard Shaw
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The convent is supreme egotism resulting in supreme self-denial.
— Victor Hugo
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My chastity's the jewel of our house, bequeathed down from many ancestors.
— William Shakespeare
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A nun of winter's sisterhood kisses not more religiously; the very ice of chastity is in them.
— William Shakespeare
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Man is not equally moral at all hours, this is well known. If his morality is judged to be the capability for great self-sacrificing resolutions…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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A lady could not boast of her chastity who was never tempted.
— Michel de Montaigne
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Politeness of mind consists in thinking chaste and refined thoughts.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Who Wrote These Chastity Quotes
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