Quotes About Purity

Her skin is the bluish color of skim milk

The most virtuous women have something within them, something that is never chaste.

We estimate wrongdoing in proportion to the purity of our conscience

She was, as you know already without as yet knowing anything, the Lily of this valley, where she grew for heaven, filling it with the fragrance of her virtues.

This poor young man had felt there the gnawing of that burning poverty which is a sort of crucible from which great talents are to emerge as pure and incorruptible as diamonds, which may be subjected to any shock without being crushed. In the fierce fire of their unbridled passions they acquire the most impeccable honesty, and get into the habit of fighting the battles which await genius with the constant work by which they coerce their cheated appetites.

Inima unei surori este un diamant de puritate, un noian de tandrete.

To keep a faith pure, man had better retire to a monastery.

Here's your hat, and by the way, I'm a virgin

It is a debt we owe to the purity of our religion to show that it is at variance with that law which warrants slavery.

I sometimes ponder on variation form and it seems to me it ought to be more restrained, purer.

Go outside! I mean, even leaves from a park are beautiful in a clear glass vase. I'd rather see that than fake anything any day.

So far as female beauty is concerned, the Circassian women have no superiors. They have preserved in their mountain home the purity of the Grecian models, and still display the perfect physical loveliness, whose type has descended to us in the Venus de Medici.

Mientras que tú piensas: agua pura, querida agua pura, solo estaré a medias en este lugar, solo a medias seré culpable, seré agua pura allí contigo.

the idea of sex is no idea at all. Imagine doing those things—How can you? Where's your sense of dignity?

I'm not a bad person." Zagaev looked up at me with imploring eyes. Claims of ethical purity are a common strategy in games like this. But they're paper, forever losing to scissors.

Tessio Zizmo had been a virgin when she married Milton Stephanides at the age of 22. Their engagement,which coincided with the Second World War, had been a chaste affair. My mother was proud of the way she'd managed to simultaneously kindle and snuff my father's flame,keeping him at a low burn for the duration of a global cataclysm.... She didn't surrender until after Japan had.

How long could we remain true to the girls? How long could we keep their memory pure? As it was, we didn't know them any longer, and their new habits—of opening a window, for instance, to throw out a wadded paper towel—made us wonder if we had ever really known them, or if our vigilance had been only the fingerprinting of phantoms.

There's a kind of purity in that, the purity of childhood.

I remember wishing I could be boiled like water and made pure again.

As we grow in holiness, we grow in hatred of sin; and God, being infinitely holy, has an infinite hatred of sin.

I am rain. I like that most of all, being rain.

I think kids, in general as an audience, are the way forward because they're not sort of sullied by intellectual expectation or this or that. It's a very pure kind of response to the work.

I think that purity creates not only a higher level of artistic vision but a purer work ethic.

Oh that simplicity and innocence its own unvalued work so seldom knows!