Chastity Quotes

157 quotes by 107 authors

Vanity, shame, and above all disposition, often make men brave and women chaste. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
If our elaborate and dominating bodies are given us to be denied at every turn, if our nature is always wrong and wicked, how ineffectual… — Cyril Connolly
Chastity - you can carry it too far. — Mark Twain
I don't mind plain women being puritans. It is the only excuse they have for being plain. — Oscar Wilde
Chastity is a difficult long term matter, one must wait patiently for it to bear fruit for the happiness of loving kindness which it must… — Pope John Paul II
It is not always from valor or from chastity that men are brave, and women chaste. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I call not that virginity a virtue, which resideth onely in the bodies integrity; much less if it be with a purpose of perpetually keeping… — John Donne
Let us again clothe ourselves with these proved and sterling virtues - honesty, truthfulness, chastity, sobriety, temperance, industry, and thrift; let us discard all covetousness… — J. Reuben Clark
When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to [profess] things he does not believe, he has prepared… — Thomas Paine
I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek… — George Sand
Only through the Eucharist is it possible to live the heroic virtues of Christianity: charity, to the point of forgiving one's enemies; love for those… — Pope John Paul II
Chastity, like honesty, is a civic as well as a personal virtue. When a society loses chastity, it begins to destroy itself. — Unknown Author
Chastity is a virtue with some, but with many it is almost a vice. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect. — George Santayana
There is but one love of Jesus, as there is but one person in the poor - Jesus. We take vows of chastity to love… — Mother Teresa
The generative energy, which, when we are loose, dissipates and makes us unclean, when we are continent invigorates and inspires us. Chastity is the flowering… — Henry David Thoreau
Chastity is more a state of mind than of anatomy. — Edward Abbey
Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity. — Geoffrey Chaucer
Chastity seems to have come as a late development. What the primitive maiden dreaded was not the loss of her virginity but a reputation for… — Unknown Author
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means, at the point of highest… — C.S. Lewis

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