Quotes About Chaste
Item, I've read that there's not a single virgin to be found in your country, said the statesman. Where might you have read this? asked the Professor Antiquitatum. The good auctor Blefken says this. I wonder if the good auctor might not have misread his sources, said Arnaeus. The best auctores tell us that Icelandic girls remain chaste virgins up until they've had their seventh child, Your Benevolence.
~ Halldor Laxness
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To be discreet, '"he looked up to glare at Æthelflaed, "'chaste! Keepers of the home! Good! Obedient to their husbands!' Those are God's own words! That is what God demands of a woman! To be discreet, to be chaste, to be home-keepers, to be obedient! God spoke to us!
~ Bernard Cornwell
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What I call Professionalism someone else might call the Artist's Code or the Warrior's Way. It's an attitude of egolessness and service. The Knights of the Round Table were chaste and self-effacing. Yet they dueled dragons.
~ Steven Pressfield
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What I call Professionalism someone else might call the Artist's Code or the Warrior's Way. It's an attitude of egolessness and service. The Knights of the Round Table were chaste and self-effacing. Yet they dueled dragons.
~ Steven Pressfield
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Like most Americans, though, I had led that numbingly chaste and uncommitted existence in which one forms neither sympathies nor antipathies of any enduring consequence.
~ Frederick Exley
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Love presses my head with carefully placed feet, wretch that he is, until he has taught me to detest chaste girls, and to live with no counsel.
~ Propertius
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Yet, I didn't understand that she was intentionally disguising her feelings with sarcasm; that was usually the last resort of people who are timid and chaste of heart, whose souls have been coarsely and impudently invaded; and who, until the last moment, refuse to yield out of pride and are afraid to express their own feelings to you.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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The kiss was an enchantment; oddly chaste, yet steaming with repressed desire.
~ Storm Constantine
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One of the cool, chaste countries - Canada or Sweden.
~ John Updike
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There are those who have nothing chaste but their ears, and nothing virtuous but their tongues.
~ De Finod
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May I have the honor . . . Mrs. Caradon?" Mrs. Caradon. Mrs. Wyatt Caradon. She leaned down and he lifted her into his arms. She kept her eyes averted as he carried her up the stairs and across the threshold of the cabin, yet she was aware of every place their bodies touched, and of where his hands were on her—chaste and proper—which only accentuated what he was probably thinking about. And what she was trying her best not to.
~ Tamera Alexander
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Grantaire, earthbound in doubt, loved to watch Enjolras soaring in the upper air of faith. He needed Enjolras. Without being fully aware of it, or seeking to account for it himself, he was charmed by that chaste, upright, inflexible and candid nature.
~ Victor Hugo
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Joy is as an angel so beautiful and delicate and chaste that she can only dwell with holiness. She cannot remain with selfishness; she is wedded to Love.
~ James Allen
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We are much mistaken if we think that men are always brave from a principle of valor, or women chaste from a principle of modesty.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Remember, fear not, be candid, promulge the body and the soul, Dwell a while and pass on, be copious, temperate, chaste, magnetic, And what you effuse may then return as the seasons return, And may be just as much as the seasons.
~ Walt Whitman
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Holding only the back of her neck, he didn't deepen the embrace, nor did he caress her or flex against her. He simply merged with her and, as he'd suspected, he was immediately overwhelmed. This is what heaven must be like . The transient concept drifted past, then evaporated. Sweetly, almost chastely, he discovered her best-kept secrets, using scant pressure and bare coercion. With a feeling approximating joy, he teased and trifled.
~ Cheryl Holt
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I have observed Afghani people and their Urdu is not as chaste as it should be and that reflects in the way they speak. Their native language is Pashtun.
~ Mukul Dev
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How good to see the moon! She is like a little piece of money. You would think she was a little silver flower. The moon is cold and chaste. I am sure she is a virgin, she has a virgin's beauty. Yes, she is a virgin. She has never defiled herself. She has never abandoned herself to men, like the other goddesses.
~ Oscar Wilde
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Nietzsche remained pious and puritan, chaste as a statue, to the last: therefore his assault on Puritanism and piety. How he longed to be a sinner, this incorrigible saint!
~ Will Durant
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There is something almost shocking in the notion of so chaste a function carrying this Kantian hurlyburly in her womb.
~ William James
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Snowflake means purity
~ Christine Daniels
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Cet amour le ravageait d'autant plus qu'il précédait la connaissance de l'amour. C'était un mal vague, intense, contre lequel il n'existe aucun remède, un désir chaste sans sexe et sans but.
~ Jean Cocteau
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She was a Roman Cardinal, chaste, but for the perfect choirboy.
~ Jeanette Winterson
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