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Chastity Quotes by Mark Twain
- Chastity - you can carry it too far.
- Simplified spelling is all right, but, like chastity, you can carry it too far.
- Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them.
More Chastity Quotes
- Give me chastity and continence, but not yet. — Saint Augustine
- The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in… — Samuel Butler
- Extremes, though contrary, have the like effects. Extreme heat kills, and so extreme cold: extreme love breeds satiety, and so extreme hatred;… — George Chapman
- Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism. — Anton Chekhov
- Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- This is the sad bed of chosen chastity because you are miles and mountains away. — Erica Jong
- Science confounds everything; it gives to the flowers an animal appetite, and takes away from even the plants their chastity. — Joseph Joubert
- It is Chastity, my brother. She that has that is clad in complete steel. — John Milton
- If thou dost marry, I'll give thee this plague for thy dowry: be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow,… — William Shakespeare
- A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts. — Barbara Cartland
- There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet. — Eric Hoffer
- Chastity is not chastity in an old man, but a disability to be unchaste. — John Donne