Chastity Quote by Charmian Clift

Chastity is the heart of virginity.

— Olalekan A Adebumiti

Chastity ... has, even now, a religious importance in a woman's life, and has so wrapped itself round with nerves and instincts that to…

— Virginia Woolf

Chastity is the ermine of woman's soul.

— Elizabeth I

Chastity is the cement of civilization and progress. Without it there is no stability in society, and without it one cannot attain the Science…

— Mary Baker Eddy

Chastity is now treated as a sexual problem.

— Mason Cooley

Much of the modern resistance to chastity comes from men's belief that they 'own' their bodies—those vast and perilous estates, pulsating with the energy…

— C. S. Lewis

Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.

— Voltaire

“Chastity: The most unnatural of the sexual perversions.”

— Aldous Huxley

In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between the sexes…

— Havelock Ellis

[Virginity is] a cultural ideology that conflates passivity - the act of not having sex - with superior morality.

— Jessica Valenti

Pure chastity is beauty to our souls, grace to our bodies, and peace to our desires.

— Solon