Monkish Quotes
- May [our Declaration of Independence] be to the world, what I believe it will be (to some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to… — Thomas Jefferson
- A fierce and monkish art; a castigation of the flesh. You must cut out your imagination and not fly an airplane but regulate a half-dozen… — Wolfgang Langewiesche
- The monkish vows keep us far from that sink of vice that is the female body, but often they bring us close to other errors.… — Umberto Eco
- Chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition, a greater foe to natural temperance even than unintellectual sensuality; it strikes at the root of all domestic… — Percy Bysshe Shelley