Chastity Quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Youth is always too serious, and just now it is too serious about frivolity.

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It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.

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Faith is always at a disadvantage; it is a perpetually defeated thing which survives all conquerors.

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A building is akin to dogma; it is insolent, like dogma. Whether or no it is permanent, it claims permanence, like a dogma. People…

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The triangle of truisms, of father, mother and child, cannot be destroyed; it can only destroy those civilizations which disregard it.

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Criticism is only words about words, and of what use are words about such words as these?

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Plato was only a Bernard Shaw who unfortunately made his jokes in Greek.

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Chastity is a virtue with some, but with many it is almost a vice.

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It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife.

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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…

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The soul whose bosom lust did never touch Is God's fair bride; and maiden's souls are such.

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Chastity is oftener owing to diffidence and shame, than to fortitude of reason or virtue.

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Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.

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It is not always from valor or from chastity that men are brave, and women chaste.

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Love clamors far more incessantly and passionately at a closed gate than an open one!

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Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism.

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