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Quotes About Chastity

la castità è una zavorra; forse prima incuteva rispetto, ma ora è sospetta, nessuno lascia un bambino da solo con un prete
~ Isabel Allende
It was a long week of penitence and fasting, during which there were no card games and no music that might lead to lust or abandon; and within the limits of possibility, the strictest sadness and chastity were observed, even though it was precisely at this time that the forked tail of the devil pricked most insistently at Catholic flesh.
~ Isabel Allende
I get a little angry about this highhanded scrapping of the look of things. What else have we to go by? How else can the average person form an opinion of a girl's sense of values or even of her chastity except by the looks of her conduct?
~ Margaret Culkin Banning
He was keeping his pants zipped, which actually wasn't as hard as it seemed, even after he'd gone for well over nine months without getting laid.
~ Suzanne Brockmann
Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
Chastity is not an attribute of body, but soul.
~ Udai Yadla, A Walk in the Rain
Solidão, silêncio, incomparável castidade do azul! Pequena vela a tremular no horizonte, cuja fraqueza e isolamento imitam a minha irremediável existência. Melodia monótona das ondas".
~ Charles Baudelaire
In the absence of men all women are chaste.
~ Khushwant Singh
Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last, in the ripeness of instinct and discretion, it ca.
~ George Santayana
Scepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer.
~ George Santayana
Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last, in the ripeness of instinct and discretion, it can be safely exchanged for fidelity and happiness.
~ George Santayana
Scepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last, in the ripeness of instinct and discretion, it can be safely exchanged for fidelity and happiness.
~ George Santayana
Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny.
~ William Shakespeare
Below the navel there is neither religion nor truth.
~ Italian proverb
Of all sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity.
~ Rimy de Gourmont
There are few chaste women who are not tired of their trade.
~ La Rochefoucauld
The six great gifts of an Irish girl are beauty, soft voice, sweet speech, wisdom, needlework, and chastity.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
Sexual intercourse is a gift that says, "Do not open until marriage." If you've already unwrapped it, wrap it up again!
~ Molly Kelly
Harder than training for the Olympics, harder than graduating from college, has been to stay a virgin before marriage.
~ Lolo Jones
Marriage fills the Earth, virginity Heaven.
~ St. Jerome
For in pure maidens, knowing not the marriage-bed, the glance of the eyes sinks from shame.
~ Aeschylus
[Christians] practiced moderation and chastity in marriage, for example, and Galen was puzzled at how they were able to do so. His comments are a kind of back-handed compliment, I suppose.
~ Larry Hurtado
I grew up very conservatively and traditionally. I wanted to save myself for marriage.
~ Linda D. Thompson
Only the chaste man and the chaste woman are capable of true love.
~ Pope John Paul II