Chastity Quotes

157 Chastity quotes by 107 unique authors

The second request of the very pure soul is to see the coming of the Father's kingdom (cf. Mt. 6:10). What this means first of… — John Cassian
Love, which, in concert with Abstinence, established Faith, and which, along with Patience, builds up Chastity, is like the columns that sustain the four corners… — Gian Carlo Menotti
The Church has no double standard of morality. The moral code of heaven for both men and women is complete chastity before marriage and full… — Ezra Taft Benson
Rich men without convictions are more dangerous in modern society than poor women without chastity. — George Bernard Shaw
Fasting cleanses the soul, raises the mind, subjects one’s flesh to the spirit, renders the heart contrite and humble, scatters the clouds of concupiscence, quenches… — Saint Augustine
Chastity more rarely follows fear, or a resolution, or a vow, than it is the mere effect of lack of appetite and, sometimes even, of… — Andre Gide
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
It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife. — Samuel Johnson
Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer. — George Santayana
There cannot be self-restraint in the absence of desire: when there is no adversary, what avails thy courage? Hark, do not castrate thyself, do not… — Unknown Author
Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity. — Tertullian
The missionary is no longer a man, a conscience. He is a corpse, in the hands of a confraternity, without family, without love, without any… — Paul Gauguin
In traditional societies, we have a long legacy of men controlling the body and mind of women. Such societies have valorised motherhood and fabricated concepts… — Taslima Nasrin
If an American is motoring on his own, he (the paragon of morality and chastity) will slow down and stop beside every solitary pretty female… — Vladimir Mayakovsky
We ought to love temperance for itself, and in obedience to God who has commanded it and chastity; but what I am forced to by… — Michel de Montaigne
Thirteen virtues necessary for true success: temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquility, chastity, and humility. — Benjamin Franklin
Modesty and chastity are twins — Anna Brownell Jameson
Julius Caesar divorced his wife Pompeia, but declared at the trial that he knew nothing of what was alleged against her and Clodius. When asked… — Plutarch
Temperance is the nurse of chastity. — William Wycherley
I get a little angry about this highhanded scrapping of the look of things. What else have we to go by? How else can the… — Margaret Culkin Banning
A blush is the sign which Nature hangs out to show where chastity and honor dwell. — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Beauty is the flower of chastity. — Zeno of Elea
The six great gifts of an Irish girl are beauty, soft voice, sweet speech, wisdom, needlework, and chastity. — Theodore Roosevelt
It strikes me often while I am in Iran that were Christian evangelicals to take a tour of Iran today, they might find it the… — Hooman Majd
Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest. — Anatole France

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