Chastity Quotes

157 Chastity quotes by 107 unique authors

Chastity is the cement of civilization and progress. Without it there is no stability in society, and without it one cannot attain the Science of… — Mary Baker Eddy
In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between the sexes which… — Havelock Ellis
A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats. — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions. — Aldous Huxley
So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and… — Marquis de Sade
Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily. — George Santayana
When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing. — Tacitus
Secrecy is the chastity of friendship. — Jeremy Taylor
Obedience to the law of chastity will increase our happiness in mortality and make possible our progress in eternity. — David A. Bednar
Someone told me the delightful story of the crusader who put a chastity belt on his wife and gave the key to his best friend… — Anais Nin
If we lived in a State where virtue was profitable, common sense would make us good, and greed would make us saintly. And we'd live… — Robert Bolt
Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism. — Blaise Pascal
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
Well, in that hit you miss. She'll not be hit With Cupid's arrow. She hath Dian's wit, And, in strong proff of chastity well armed,… — William Shakespeare
Da mihi castitatem et continentiam, sed noli modo (Give me chastity and continence, but not just yet)! — Saint Augustine
Anyone who has the temerity to write about Jane Austen is aware of [two] facts: first, that of all great writers she is the most… — Virginia Woolf
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
A woman may possess the wisdom and chastity of Minerva, and we give no heed to her, if she has a plain face. What folly… — William Makepeace Thackeray
Whatever he says, let his inner resolution be not to bear whatever comes to him, but to bear it 'for a reasonable period'--and let the… — C.S. Lewis
Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them. — Mark Twain
To some it may seem old-fashioned to speak of virtue and chastity, honesty, morality, faith, character, but these are the qualities which have built great… — Harold B. Lee
The spring without a leaf to toss, bare and bright like a virgin fierce in her chastity, scornful in her purity, was laid out on… — Virginia Woolf
Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe. It is impossible to calculate… — Thomas Paine
I am a lover of the cause of Christ and of virtue, chastity, and an upright, steady course of conduct and a holy walk. I… — Joseph Smith, Jr.
Fighting for peace, is like f***ing for chastity — Stephen King

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