Intelligence Quote by Henry David Thoreau

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

— Norm MacDonald

The generative energy, which, when we are loose, dissipates and makes us unclean, when we are continent invigorates and inspires us. Chastity is the…

— Henry David Thoreau

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

— Solon

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 most unpopular of the Christian virtues.

— C. S. Lewis

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

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

“But chastity means passion, chastity means neurasthenia. And passion and neurasthenia mean instability. And instability means the end of civilization. You can’t have a…

— Aldous Huxley

“What we term virtue is often but a mass of various actions and diverse interests, which fortune, or our own industry, manage to arrange;…

— François de La Rochefoucauld

He who, with strong passions, remains chaste--he who, keenly sensitive, with manly power of indignation in him, can yet restrain himself and forgive--these are…

— Frederick William Robertson

“The true essence of who you are, balances itself upon a cushion of purity, benevolence, and holiness.”

— Gary Gordon

“You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There…

— Louisa May Alcott