Character Quote by Norm MacDonald

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Chastity, like honesty, is a civic as well as a personal virtue. When a society loses chastity, it begins to destroy itself.

— J. William Schickel

Chastity is the lily of virtues, and makes men almost equal to Angels. Everything is beautiful in accordance with its purity. Now the purity…

— Saint Francis de Sales

“Chastity is the flowering of man; and what are called Genius, Heroism, Holiness, and the like, are but various fruits which succeed it”

— Henry David Thoreau

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

— Solon

To acquire and preserve the virtue of chastity, we have need of a good and experienced confessor.

— Philip Neri

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

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Chastity is the most unpopular of the Christian virtues.

— C. S. Lewis

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

“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

For to be discontented with the divine discontent, and to be ashamed with the noble shame, is the very germ and first upgrowth of…

— Charles Kingsley

“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