"Chastity is not chastity in an old man,……" — John Donne
"Chastity is not chastity in an old man, but a disability to be unchaste."
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John Donne
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223 Quotes by John Donne
John Donne has 223 quotes on this site.
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For love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere
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Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it.
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Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
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If I lose at play, I blaspheme; if my fellow loses, he blasphemes. So, God is always the loser.
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Pleasure is none, if not diversified.
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At most, the greatest persons are but great wens, and excrescences; men of wit and delightful conversation, but as morals…
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That which attempts to elevate the ugly to the level of beauty becomes neither; but an obscenity.
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As he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else.
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How many times go we to comedies, to masques, to places of great and noble resort, nay even to church…
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Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.
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Enjoyment always has a spoiling, otherwise it cannot be so.
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We love and understand talent; we wish it be within us. The truly gifted, those exceptional few, must wait for…
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More Chastity Quotes
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one of 157 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
— Saint Augustine
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The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and…
— Samuel Butler
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Extremes, though contrary, have the like effects. Extreme heat kills, and so extreme cold: extreme love breeds satiety, and so…
— George Chapman
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Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism.
— Anton Chekhov
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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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This is the sad bed of chosen chastity because you are miles and mountains away.
— Erica Jong
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Science confounds everything; it gives to the flowers an animal appetite, and takes away from even the plants their chastity.
— Joseph Joubert
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It is Chastity, my brother. She that has that is clad in complete steel.
— John Milton
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If thou dost marry, I'll give thee this plague for thy dowry: be thou as chaste as ice, as pure…
— William Shakespeare
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A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.
— Barbara Cartland
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There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet.
— Eric Hoffer
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Be warm, be pure, be amorous, but be chaste.
— Lord Byron
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