quotations about chastity
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
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"Satisfied", Black Acetate
My poor belated chastity fell foul
Of grown up games
ELVIS COSTELLO
"Little Atoms"
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
Chastity with the reins of reason bridleth the rage of lust.
ANONYMOUS
Antiquity: or, The Wise Instructor
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
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
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
It must be hard sometimes
To stand behind your chastity
And I wish that I could be the one
But it's not me, I'll never set you free
GOOD RIDDANCE
"Holding On"
Give me chastity and continence, but not just yet!
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO
Confessions
'Tis Chastity, my brother, Chastity: She that has that, is clad in complete steel.
JOHN MILTON
Poems on Several Occasions
Release yourself upon me
Free the hounds of chastity
K.D. LANG
"Sexuality"
Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
ANATOLE FRANCE
Heretic's Handbook of Quotations
In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between the sexes which shocked austere moralists.
HAVELOCK ELLIS
Little Essays of Love and Virtue
An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
Essays
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
Nothing makes a woman more esteemed by the opposite sex than chastity; whether it be that we always prize those most who are hardest to come at, or that nothing besides chastity, with its collateral attendants, truth, fidelity, and constancy, gives a man a property in the person he loves, and consequently endears her to him above all things.
JOSEPH ADDISON
The Spectator, Jun. 23, 1711
There is no chastity so agreeable to God as a faithful marriage.
IZARN
attributed, Day's Collacon
Many a girl will fight for her honor until the man is just about ready to give up.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULT
Maxims and Moral Reflections
Chastity is a difficult, long term matter; one must wait patiently for it to bear fruit, for the happiness of loving kindness which it must bring. But at the same time, chastity is the sure way to happiness.
POPE JOHN PAUL II
Love and Responsibility