"Temperance is the nurse of chastity." — William Wycherley
"Temperance is the nurse of chastity."
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William Wycherley
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27 Quotes by William Wycherley
William Wycherley has 27 quotes on this site.
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Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.
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I weigh the man, not his title; 'tis not the king's stamp can make the metal better.
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Necessity, mother of invention.
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Women of quality are so civil, you can hardly distinguish love from good breeding.
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Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.
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Women serve but to keep a man from better company.
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Your women of honor, as you call em, are only chary of their reputations, not their persons; and 'Tis scandal…
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A good name is seldom got by giving it oneself.
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Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be/Yet such wherein men may thy judgment see.
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A beauty masked, like the sun in eclipse, gathers together more gazers than if it shined out.
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But methings wit is more necessary than beauty; and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no…
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Poets, like friends to whom you are in debt, you hate.
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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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Chastity is not chastity in an old man, but a disability to be unchaste.
— John Donne
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