'Tis Chastity, my brother, Chastity: She that has that, is clad in complete steel
John Milton
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'Tis chastity, my brother, chastity. She that has that is clad in complete steel, and like a quivere...
JOHN MILTON 'Tis chastity, my brother, chastity;
She that has that is clad in complete steel,
And, like a ...
JOHN MILTON When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
TACITUS When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS We romantic writers are there to make people feel and not think. A historical romance is the only ki...
BARBARA CARTLAND Even from the body's purity, the mind
Receives a secret sympathetic aid.
JAMES THOMSON (1) When a woman has lost her chastity, she will shrink from no
crime.
[Lat., Neque femina amissa pud...
TACITUS (CAIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS) Me of my lawful pleasure she restrained
And prayed me oft forbearance--did it with
A pudency s...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The noble sister of Publicola,
The moon of Rome, chaste as the icicle
That's curded by the fro...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A nun of winter's sisterhood kisses not more religiously; the
very ice of chastity is in them.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity,
That, when a soul is found sincerely so,
A thousand liv...
JOHN MILTON As pure as a pearl,
And as perfect: a noble and innocent girl.
LORD LYTTON (EDWARD ROBERT BULWER LYTTON) ("OWEN MEREDITH") That chastity of honour which felt a stain like a wound.
EDMUND BURKE There's a woman like a dew-drop,
She's so purer than the purest.
ROBERT BROWNING Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
UNKNOWN Lord, Make me chaste, but not yet
ST. AUGUSTINE I call not that virginity a virtue, which resideth only in the bodies integrity; much less if it be ...
JOHN DONNE It is difficult to believe in a religion that places such a high premium on chastity and virginity.
MADONNA Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
ANATOLE FRANCE If she seem not chaste to me,
What care I how chaste she be?
SIR WALTER RALEIGH Mine honor's such a ring;
My chastity's the jewel of our house,
Bequeathed down from many ance...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Chastity is the cement of civilization and progress. Without it there is no stability in society, a...
MARY BAKER EDDY Like the stain'd web that whitens in the sun,
Grow pure by being purely shone upon.
THOMAS MOORE A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
JONATHAN SWIFT Then she rode forth, clothed on with chastity:
The deep air listen'd round her as she rode,
An...
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON An unattempted lady could not vaunt of her chastity.
MICHEL EYQUEM DE MONTAIGN Honey in his mouth, knives in his heart
CHINESE PROVERBS You are all camphire and frankincense, all chastity and odour.
WILLIAM CONGREVE A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE CHASTITY is a wealth that comes from abundance of love. 74
RABINDRANATH TAGORE The moral code of Heaven for both men and women is complete chastity before marriage and full fideli...
EZRA TAFT BENSON Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.
JEREMY TAYLOR Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect.
GEORGE SANTAYANA Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
ANATOLE FRANCE It is amusing that a virtue is made of the vice of chastity; and it's a pretty odd sort of chastity ...
VOLTAIRE We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition.
ALEXANDER COMFORT We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition.
ALEX COMFORT We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition.
ALEXANDER COMFORT Da mihi castitatem et continentiam, sed noli modo (Give me chastity and continence, but not just yet...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Much of the modern resistance to chastity comes from men's belief that they ''own'' their bodies -- ...
C.S. LEWIS And she who guarded her chastity, so We breathed into her of Our inspiration and made her and her so...
QURAN I am as comfortless as a pilgrim with peas in his shoes -- and as cold as Charity, Chastity or any o...
LORD BYRON Poetry, like chastity, can be carried to far
MARK TWAIN I've never had sex. Never wanted to. Not with a man or a woman or an animal, though my family jokes ...
MARIE PHILLIPS Fighting for peace, is like f***ing for chastity
STEPHEN KING Chastity is not an attribute of body, but soul.
UDAI YADLA Of all sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity.
REMY DE GOURMONT Chastity - you can carry it too far
MARK TWAIN Parents have to understand: if your kid isn't you, don't blame the kid.
CHASTITY BONO I absolutely believe in assimilation. I don't believe I'm any different from straight people. My wan...
CHASTITY BONO Deep down, my mom had long suspected I was gay... Much of her anger and hurt came from her sense of ...
CHASTITY BONO The highest virtue found in the tropics is chastity, and in the colder regions, temperance.
CHRISTIAN NEVELL BOVEE The highest virtue found in the tropics is chastity, and in the colder regions, temperance.
CHRISTIAN NEVELL BOVEE Modesty is the chastity of merit, the virginity of noble souls.
MADAME DE GIRARDIN Of all the sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity.
REMY DE GOURMONT An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
SAINT AUGUSTINE Chastity: the most unnatural of the sexual perversions.
ALDOUS HUXLEY An unattempted woman cannot boast of her chastity
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Credit is like chastity, they can both stand temptation better than suspicion
JOSH BILLINGS An unattempted lady could not vaunt of her chastity.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.
GEORGE SANTAYANA Give me chastity and continence, but not quite yet.
ST. AURELIUS AUGUSTINE A clean heart is a free heart. A free heart can love Christ with an undivided love in chastity, conv...
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA It is fatally easy for Western folk, who have discarded chastity as a value for themselves, to suppo...
GERMAINE GREER If you cannot be chaste, be cautious
SPANISH PROVERB She stands and moves within the invisible pentacle of her own virginity. She is an unbroken egg: she...
ANGELA CARTER Then there is the chastity-belt phenomenon, where her love handles have been his excuse for their di...
EDWARD ABRAMSON If the Barons of Bad Taste known as network executives believe in chastity as an anti-AIDS measure, ...
MARTIN F. NOLAN Chastity—the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions, he added parenthetically, out of ALDOUS HUXLEY A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.
BARBARA CARTLAND Chastity always takes its toll. In some it produces pimples; in others, sex laws.
KARL KRAUS But chastity means passion, chastity means neurasthenia. And passion and neurasthenia mean instabili...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Oh Lord, give me chastity, but do not give it yet.
SAINT AUGUSTINE Oh Lord, give me chastity, but do not give it yet.
ST. AURELIUS AUGUSTINE Rich men without convictions are more dangerous in modern society than poor women without chastity.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism.
BLAISE PASCAL Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism
BLAISE PASCAL Why, isabel? Why are you doing this to yourself? To your body?'
And why are you doing this t...
LOUISE O'NEILL Chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition, a greater foe to natural temperance even than un...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that yo...
SAMUEL BUTLER A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity
GEOFFREY CHAUCER Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity ...
ANTON CHEKHOV Obedience to the law of chastity will increase our happiness in mortality and make possible our prog...
DAVID A. BEDNAR Priority is placed on the chastity of women. You can be corrupt, or a murderer and still hold your h...
SAFAK PAVEY Modesty and chastity are important values for us and we are not giving them up.
ANTONIO SCIORTINO Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
G. K. CHESTERTON Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON For women like me, integrity isn't chastity, it isn't fidelity, it isn't any of the old words. Integ...
DORIS LESSING Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chast...
ANTON CHEKHOV I am neither a homosexual nor a eunuch, nor have I ever taken any vows of chastity.
J. PAUL GETTY It is fatally easy for Western folk, who have discarded chastity as a value for themselves, to suppo...
GERMAINE GREER Chastity is the cement of civilization and progress. Without it there is no stability in society, an...
MARY BAKER EDDY Reading a novel in which all characters illustrate patience, hard work, chastity, and delayed gratif...
THOMAS PERRY Nothing was simple, certainly not simplification.
COLUM MCCANN It's like a convent, the hospital. You leave the world behind and take vows of poverty, chastity, ob...
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