Quotes
Quotes about Chastity
'T is chastity, my brother, chastity:
She that has that is clad in complete steel.
So dear to heav'n is saintly chastity,
That when a soul is found sincerely so,
A thousand liveried angels lackey her,
Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt,
And in clear dream and solemn vision
Tell her of things that no gross ear can hear,
Till oft converse with heav'nly habitants
Begin to cast a beam on th' outward shape.
That chastity of honour which felt a stain like a wound.
Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism.
Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
That chastity of honour which felt a stain like a wound.
'Tis chastity, my brother, chastity; She that has that is clad in complete steel, And, like a quiver'd nymph with arrows keen, May trace huge forests, and unharbour'd heaths, Infamous hills, and sandy perilous wilds; Where, through the sacred rays of chastity, No savage fierce, bandite, or mountaineer, Will dare to soil her virgin purity.
So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity, That, when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lacky her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt.
Mine honor's such a ring; My chastity's the jewel of our house, Bequeathed down from many ancestors, Which were the greatest obloquy i' th' world In me to lose.
A nun of winter's sisterhood kisses not more religiously; the very ice of chastity is in them.
When a woman has lost her chastity, she will shrink from no crime. [Lat., Neque femina amissa pudicitia alia abneurit.]
Then she rode forth, clothed on with chastity: The deep air listen'd round her as she rode, And all the low wind hardly breathed for fear.
Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
We romantic writers are there to make people feel and not think. A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.
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.
An unattempted lady could not vaunt of her chastity.
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.
It's like a convent, the hospital. You leave the world behind and take vows of poverty, chastity, obedience.
Value of a man depends upon his courage; his veracity depends upon his self-respect and his chastity depends upon his sense of honor.
Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
Mercy to living beings, self restraint, truth, honesty, chastity and contentment, right faith and knowledge, and austerity are but the entourage of morality.
Of all sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity.
Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect.
Julius Caesar divorced his wife Pompeia, but declared at the trial that he knew nothing of what was alleged against her and Clodius. When asked why, in that case, he had divorced her, he replied: "Because I would have the chastity of my wife clear even of suspicion."
The highest virtue found in the tropics is chastity, and in the colder regions, temperance.
