"The only really indecent people are the chaste." — Joris-Karl Huysmans
"The only really indecent people are the chaste."
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Joris-Karl Huysmans
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23 Quotes by Joris-Karl Huysmans
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The belief that man is an irresolute creature pulled this way and that by two forces of equal strength, alternately…
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No longer was she merely the dancing-girl who extorts a cry of lust and concupiscence from an old man by…
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At a period when Literature was wont to attribute the grief of living exclusively to the mischances of disappointed love…
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Speaking of dust, ‘out of which we came and to which we shall return,’ do you know that after we…
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Really, when I think it over, literature has only one excuse for existing; it saves the person who makes it…
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Art is the only clean thing on earth, except holiness.
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There's no doubt about it - gardeners are the only true artists these days.
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The modern painter…is an excellent couturier
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Immersed in solitude, he would dream or read far into the night. By protracted contemplation of the same thoughts, his…
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Ah; but my courage fails me, and my heart is sick within me! —Lord, take pity on the Christian who…
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Far from seeking to justify, as does the Church, the necessity of torments and afflictions, he cried, in his outraged…
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His contempt for humanity grew fiercer, and at last he came to realize that the world is made up mostly…
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More Chaste Quotes
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one of 89 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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The most virtuous women have something within them, something that is never chaste.
— Honore de Balzac
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I would not like to see a person who is sober, moderate, chaste and just say that there is no…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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Nothing is gained except by sacrifice.... Do not degrade it to the level of the brutes.... Make yourselves decent men!…
— Swami Vivekananda
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As chaste as unsunned snow.
— William Shakespeare
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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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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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Politeness of mind consists in thinking chaste and refined thoughts.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Vanity, shame, and above all disposition, often make men brave and women chaste.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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It is not always from valor or from chastity that men are brave, and women chaste.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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A hair shirt does not always render those chaste who wear it.
— Michel de Montaigne
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The more pure and chaste is a soul, the more it hungers for this Bread [Jesus in the Eucharist], from…
— Pope Pius XII
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