Chastity Quote by Edna O'Brien Download Open image “I have always espoused chastity except when one can no longer resist the temptation.” — Edna O'Brien ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Chastity Temptation
Chastity is a virtue with some, but with many it is almost a vice. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Chastity more rarely follows fear, or a resolution, or a vow, than it is the mere effect of lack of appetite and, sometimes even,… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
Chastity is the most unpopular of the Christian virtues. There is no getting away from it; the old Christian rule is, "Either marriage, with… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
To acquire and preserve the virtue of chastity, we have need of a good and experienced confessor. — Philip Neri Copy Share Image
I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
One of the important things about temptation is, if I'm going to deal with it I'm going to have to recognize, this is an… — Charles Stanley Copy Share Image
What is chastity? How shall a man know if he is chaste? He shall not know it. We have heard of this virtue, but… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The best way to resist temptation is to avoid it. Prevention is far, far better than repentance. — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
... a country encapsulates our childhood and those lanes, byres, fields, flowers, insects, suns, moons and stars are forever reoccurring. — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
I crossed the room, and what you did was to feel my hair over and over again and in different ways, touch it, with… — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
Ordinary life bypassed me, but I also bypassed it. It couldn't have been any other way.Conventional life and conventional people are not for me. — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
History is said to be written by the victors. Fiction, by contrast, is largely the work of injured bystanders. — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
“A healer! The beauty of the word a balm. In a mounting astonishment she hears how this man heals with his own blood, pricks… — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
“If I could feel like myself I’d thank God but I don’t feel and never will.” — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
...people liking you or not liking you is an accident and is to do with them and not you. That goes for love too,… — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
Chastity is a virtue with some, but with many it is almost a vice. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
But there is a beauty every girl has—a gift from God, as pure as the sunlight, and as sacred as life. It is a… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
The soul whose bosom lust did never touch Is God's fair bride; and maiden's souls are such. — Tertullian Copy Share Image
Chastity is oftener owing to diffidence and shame, than to fortitude of reason or virtue. — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
It is not always from valor or from chastity that men are brave, and women chaste. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Love clamors far more incessantly and passionately at a closed gate than an open one! — Marie Corelli Copy Share Image
Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
I get a little angry about this highhanded scrapping of the look of things. What else have we to go by? How else can… — Margaret Culkin Banning Copy Share Image
Let us avoid debt as we would avoid a plague...Let every head of every household see to it that he has on hand enough… — J. Reuben Clark Copy Share Image
There is no true Latter-day Saint who would not rather bury a son or a daughter than to have him or her lose his… — Heber J. Grant Copy Share Image
