Chastity Quotes

A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.

Reading a novel in which all characters illustrate patience, hard work, chastity, and delayed gratification could be a pretty dull experience.

Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.

The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.

So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public.

A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.

Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.

Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.

Chastity is the cement of civilization and progress. Without it there is no stability in society, and without it one cannot attain the Science of Life.

Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.

We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition.

Oh Lord, give me chastity, but do not give it yet.

An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.

Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism.

Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.

When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.

Extremes, though contrary, have the like effects. Extreme heat kills, and so extreme cold: extreme love breeds satiety, and so extreme hatred; and too violent rigor tempts chastity, as does too much license.

Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.

Of all the sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity.

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

In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between the sexes which shocked austere moralists.

I am neither a homosexual nor a eunuch, nor have I ever taken any vows of chastity.