quotations about chastity
A beautiful and chaste woman is the perfect workmanship of God, and the true glory of angels, the rare miracle of earth, and the sole wonder of the world.
GEORGE HERMES
attributed, Living Like Benjamin
Chastity with the reins of reason bridleth the rage of lust.
ANONYMOUS
Antiquity: or, The Wise Instructor
'Tis Chastity, my brother, Chastity: She that has that, is clad in complete steel.
JOHN MILTON
Poems on Several Occasions
Give me chastity and continence, but not just yet!
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO
Confessions
I'm gonna seek this thing like a buried treasure
Like Columbus sailing over the sea
Until I discover, baby, the land beyond expertise and chastity
JOHN CALE
"Satisfied", Black Acetate
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.
MARY BAKER EDDY
Science and Health
How profitable to the spiritual interests of man is this virtue of chastity! Chastity delivers him from a shameful passion which agitates and tyrannises over him unceasingly, which devours and consumes him by that thirst for impure and criminal pleasures and enjoyments which he can neither quench nor satisfy, even by giving it everything it asks of him.
MARIE LATASTE
Letters and Writings
Pure chastity is beauty to our souls, grace to our bodies, and peace to our desires.
SOLON
attributed, Day's Collacon
Much of the modern resistance to chastity comes from men's belief that they "own" their bodies -- those vast and perilous estates, pulsating with the energy that made the worlds, in which they find themselves without their consent and from which they are ejected at the pleasure of Another!
C. S. LEWIS
The Screwtape Letters
Get your motor running
Come on, dance with me
Your momma and your poppa always hassle me
Get you home by midnight but it's ten to three
Stop huffin' and a'puffin' like a shasta beast
I wanna pick the lock and break your chastity
I've got the combination and the master key
I'm a dancer and romancer not a monster beast
EAGLES OF DEATH METAL
"Shasta Beast"
Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc. In a word, God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.
G. K. CHESTERTON
Tremendous Trifles
Chastity is a virtue with some, but with many almost a vice. These people abstain, to be sure: but the bitch Sensuality leers enviously out of all that they do. This restless beast follows them even into the heights of their virtue and into the depths of their cold spirit.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Chastity is oftener owing to diffidence and shame, than to fortitude of reason or virtue.
NORMAN MACDONALD
Maxims and Moral Reflections
Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
ANATOLE FRANCE
Heretic's Handbook of Quotations
An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
Essays
There is no chastity so agreeable to God as a faithful marriage.
IZARN
attributed, Day's Collacon
A nun of winter's sisterhood kisses not more religiously; the very ice of chastity is in them.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
As You Like It
The girl who is chaste is probably a virgin; the girl who is chased is probably not.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
My poor belated chastity fell foul
Of grown up games
ELVIS COSTELLO
"Little Atoms"
She stands and moves within the invisible pentacle of her own virginity. She is an unbroken egg: she is a sealed vessel; she has inside her a magic space the entrance to which is shut tight with a plug of membrane; she is a closed system; she does not know how to shiver.
ANGELA CARTER
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories