Purity Quotes

Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.

Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives.

Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts.

I heard Thackeray thank Heaven for the purity of Dickens. I thanked Heaven for the purity of a greater than Dickens - Thackeray himself.

Rare is the union of beauty and purity.

It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.

All men are homosexual, some turn straight. It must be very odd to be a straight man because your sexuality is hopelessly defensive. It's like an ideal of racial purity.

Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature.

It has been said that the position of woman is the test of civilization, and that of our women was secure. In them was vested our standard of morals and the purity of our blood.

All the classical genres are now ridiculous in their rigorous purity.

I needed to be in the bush. There I find solitude and beauty and purity and focus. That's where my heart lies.

There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.

Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.

The name of Jesus, like a secret charm, awakened similar emotions in the hearts of all the converts, and called immediately into action every feeling of moral loveliness, and every desire of dutiful obedience, which constitute Christian purity.

India has the purity, the innocence. India knows what it wants. There is a direction. It has so much to offer.

Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.

I like the purity of stand-up because it is all about whether people laugh at your jokes. Either they laugh or they don't.

The plastic virtues: purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection.

He who loves with purity considers not the gift of the lover, but the love of the giver.

Man does find in Nature deliverance from himself, oblivion of his past, with peace and purity!

And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.

I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.

I don't think geometric art is... I don't like to call it that. I don't think it's any more pure than pop art or anything else. It doesn't have anything to do with purity.

Anyone who wants to look at sunlight naturally wipes his eye clear first, in order to make, at any rate, some approximation to the purity of that on which he looks; and a person wishing to see a city or country goes to the place in order to do so.

The way to preserve the peace of the church is to preserve its purity.

A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by.

In America, they shoot budgets and schedules, and they don't shoot films any more. There's more opportunity in Europe to make films that at least have a purity of intent.

Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.

There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.