Top 100 Chastity's Quotes
#1. My chastity's the jewel of our house, bequeathed down from many ancestors.
William Shakespeare
#2. The soul that is the abode of chastity acquires an energy which enables her to surmount with ease the obstacles that lie along the path of duty.
Joseph Joubert
#3. Agape, eros, and chastity, a heady combination that would make even the strongest man fall to his knees
Sylvain Reynard
#6. Chastity is now treated as a sexual problem.
Mason Cooley
#7. Keeping that man out of trouble was like trying to return a whore to chastity.
Lydia Dare
#9. Chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition, a greater foe to natural temperance even than unintellectual sensuality; it strikes at the root of all domestic happiness, and consigns more than half of the human race to misery.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#10. Fighting for peace, is like f***ing for chastity
Stephen King
#11. The beauty and music ... It is a call ... And some are not strong.
Richard Llewellyn
#12. I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.
George Sand
#13. Monsignor ... you are asking whether I promise God chastity, poverty, and obedience. I heard what you said and my answer is no
Denis Diderot
#14. Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism.
Anton Chekhov
#15. Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity, insert into their ears the word of God, tie the yoke of Christ around their necks, and adorn their whole persons with the silk of sanctity and the damask of devotion.
Tertullian
#16. Do you have to do murder?
Do we have to do murder? Sure we have to do murder. There are only two subjects
a woman's chastity, and murder. Nobody's interested in chastity any more. Murder's all we got to write stories about.
Leslie Ford
#17. Bianca: There's a difference between like and love. I like my Sketchers. But I love my Prada backpack.
Chastity: But I love my Sketchers.
Bianca: That's because you don't have a Prada backpack.
David Levithan
#19. Was once lost always lost really true of chastity?
Thomas Hardy
#20. Let us at least say of religion that it means that every part of the body is infused with mind, not that the mind is overwhelmed and drowned in body. For the principal attribute of the Gods, without or within us, is mind.
Thornton Wilder
#21. A Nuns Life: Chastity, poverty, and obedience. Wait, chastity? BUMPER STICKER
Darynda Jones
#22. I am as comfortless as a pilgrim with peas in his shoes - and as cold as Charity, Chastity or any other Virtue.
Lord Byron
#23. the greater the gender equity of a country, the smaller the gender gap in the importance of the financial resources of a partner (as well as in the importance of other preferences, like chastity and good looks).36
Cordelia Fine
#24. Larry Summers is to modesty what Madonna is to Chastity.
Paul Gigot
#25. Now to understand the significance of chastity within us, we have to know that chastity is the foundation of all dharmas. Unless and until you have sense of chastity you cannot have dharma.
Nirmala Srivastava
#27. A nun of winter's sisterhood kisses not more religiously; the very ice of chastity is in them.
William Shakespeare
#28. The essence of chastity is not the suppression of lust, but the total orientation of one's life towards a goal. Without such a goal, chastity is bound to become ridiculous. Chastity is the sine qua non of lucidity and concentration.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#29. Onto Chastity Bjornsen's car radio came the drawling irreverent brass and subhip syncopation of a Herb Alpert arrangement, which Doc realized with growing horror was a cover of Ohio Express's "Yummy Yummy Yummy." He
Thomas Pynchon
#30. Love gets used up, Chastity. If it's not returned, it gets used up.
Kristan Higgins
#31. There's something about all the people who are on a mission for purity and chastity, which I find very questionable.
Deniz Gamze Erguven
#32. It's all love or sex these days. Friendship is almost as quaint and outdated a notion as chastity. Soon friends will be like the elves and the pixies - fabulous mythical creatures from a distant past ...
C.S. Lewis
#33. 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
#34. It's like a convent, the hospital. You leave the world behind and take vows of poverty, chastity, obedience.
Carolyn Wheat
#35. When he was a young man he prayed constantly for chastity; but years later he realized that while his lips had been saying 'Oh Lord, make me chaste,' his heart had been secretly adding, 'But please don't do it just yet.
C.S. Lewis
#36. So you can't marry Harry, Mom! Not if you still love Daddy!" I sound like a ten-year-old, but I can't help it. Buttercup comes over to me and puts her head on my lap.
"Love gets used up, Chastity," Mom says gently, reaching up to smooth my hair. "If it's not returned, it gets used up.
Kristan Higgins
#37. Virgin suicide
What was that she cried?
No use in stayin'
On this holocaust ride
She gave me her cherry
She's my virgin suicide
Jeffrey Eugenides
#38. Chastity ... has, even now, a religious importance in a woman's life, and has so wrapped itself round with nerves and instincts that to cut it free and bring it to the light of day demands courage of the rarest.
Virginia Woolf
#39. When I claim chastity, that's when the fantasy is most vibrant.
C.D. Reiss
#40. What can chastity or purity even mean, once you have smiled at sodomy?
Anthony M. Esolen
#41. All along the street, keys rattle in key-holes as each shop's ornate metal clothing is stripped away ... It's as if, having unlocked the chastity of shutters and doors, they can't see the point in maintaining any shred of modesty.
Michel Faber
#42. It is amusing that a virtue is made of the vice of chastity; and it's a pretty odd sort of chastity at that, which leads men straight into the sin of Onan, and girls to the waning of their color.
Voltaire
#43. All of us hate to be caged, Mitch. For Hyde, and maybe Chastity, it's necessary. But for the rest of us, it's a choice." Eden stalked out, wondering which choice she was making.
Lauren Stewart
#44. Her chastity belt's in the back of my car.
Gail McHugh
#45. Giselle Speakmon's parents are totally devout. When I get in there and we hook up, there won't be any cribs for me either, Dad, because I reckon they'll make me wear one of those chastity belts, knowin' Jas is my brother and all.
Kristen Ashley
#48. It's just that this outfit is much easier to deal with than that chastity contraption you had on the last time we were kissing.
Andrea Cremer
#49. Fasting cleanses the soul, raises the mind, subjects one's flesh to the spirit, renders the heart contrite and humble, scatters the clouds of concupiscence, quenches the fire of lust, and kindles the true light of chastity. Enter again into yourself.
Saint Augustine
#50. Chastity is the most unpopular of the Christian virtues.
C.S. Lewis
#51. She refuses to be hit with Cupid's arrow. Shielded by the armor of chastity, she can't be charmed by words of love. She won't be assaulted by loving eyes, and she won't accept gifts of gold.
William Shakespeare
#52. Chastity seems to have come as a late development. What the primitive maiden dreaded was not the loss of her virginity but a reputation for sterility.
Charmian Clift
#53. While it wasn't a total given that all members of the Color Guard also belonged to the Chastity Club, twirling flags was considered one of the most wholesome activities on campus, meaning the ratio of Chastity girls in Color Guard was something like that of Mormons in Utah.
Gemma Halliday
#54. Supposed to be commissioned by the Church, the pardoners would sell absolution for any sin from gluttony to homicide, cancel any vow of chastity or fasting, remit any penance for money, most of which they pocketed.
Barbara W. Tuchman
#55. The two Crabfest eaters pulled out bills one at a time. Then they each opened their change purse as though it were a rusted chastity belt. Heidi
Harlan Coben
#56. The only qualities that befit a woman are gentle obedience, chastity, mercy, and quietness,
Janice P. Nimura
#57. Chastity is not an attribute of body, but soul.
Udai Yadla
#58. For women like me, integrity isn't chastity, it isn't fidelity, it isn't any of the old words. Integrity is the orgasm. That is something I haven't any control over.
Doris Lessing
#60. Simplified spelling is all right, but, like chastity, you can carry it too far.
Mark Twain
#61. The chambermaid believed in courtly love. A book's physical self was sacrosanct to her, its form inseparable from its content; her duty as a lover was Platonic adoration, a noble but doomed attempt to conserve forever the state of perfect chastity in which it had left the bookseller.
Anne Fadiman
#63. I would tell him how he almost made us lose interest in passion by his obsession with the gestures empty of their emotions, and how we reviled him, because he almost caused us to take vows of chastity, because what he wanted us to exclude was our own aphrodisiac - poetry.
Anais Nin
#65. When you decide firmly to lead a clean life, chastity will not be a burden on you: it will be a crown of triumph.
Josemaria Escriva
#66. I adhere to the law of chastity because I don't believe in pushing women. That's what it means to be a man. I don't hurt others simply to make myself feel superior. Gossip can ruin a woman as surely as unchaste behavior. True men don't indulge in either. We don't need to.
Courtney Milan
#68. Chastity is not given once and for all like a wedding ring that is put on never to be taken off, but is a garden which each day must be weeded, watered, and trimmed anew, or soon there will be only brambles and wilderness.
Joanna Russ
#69. Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism.
Blaise Pascal
#70. When people want to insult a man, they cast slurs upon his courage. But the worst they can say about a woman is to impugn her chastity.
Sharon Kay Penman
#73. Like a chastity belt, the package tour keeps you out of mischief but a bit restive for wondering what you missed.
Peg Bracken
#74. Give me chastity and constancy, but not yet." St. Augustine. "Amen" Odette
Marie Clair
#75. I may become weak and start listening to what my body has to say more than my brain. So I elect you the responsible one."
"I've been crazy about you since we met. You've elected Bill Clinton president of the chastity club.
Robin Alexander
#76. Thirteen virtues necessary for true success: temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquility, chastity, and humility.
Benjamin Franklin
#77. Really? Then why is it my memories from that time are locked up tighter than a virgin in an iron maiden chastity belt that's been welded shut? I had always had a way with words.
Eve Langlais
#78. Chastity is the flowering of man; and what are called Genius, Heroism, Holiness, and the like, are but various fruits which succeed it
Henry David Thoreau
#79. It is difficult to believe in a religion that places such a high premium on chastity and virginity.
Madonna Ciccone
#80. You're taking umbrage like a tart whose lack of chastity has been pointed out to her.
Andrzej Sapkowski
#81. Take as an example the wisdom of Joseph and his submission. Do battle in chastity and service until you make yourself a king (cf. Gen. 41).
Pachomius The Great
#82. Coffee is not as necessary to ministers of the reformed faith as to Catholic priests. The latter are not allowed to marry, and coffee is said to induce chastity.
Elisabeth Charlotte D'Orleans
#83. Respectability is joining chastity in the museum of dead issues.
Mason Cooley
#84. Chastity is curable, if detected early.
Woody Allen
#85. A clean heart is a free heart. A free heart can love Christ with an undivided love in chastity, convinced that nothing and nobody will separate it from his love. Purity, chastity, and virginity created a special beauty in Mary that attracted God's attention.
Mother Teresa
#86. Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions, he added parenthetically, out of Remy de Gourmont.
Aldous Huxley
#87. Poor control-freak Jeb. Your world's way off-kilter when little Alyssa's not tripping over her chastity belt. Is that it, bad boy?
A.G. Howard
#88. The truth is that wherever a man lies with a woman, there, whether they like it or not, a transcendental relation is set up between them which must be eternally enjoyed or eternally endured.
C.S. Lewis
#89. Good and safe" are all I have been during my romantic career, keeping myself virtuous outside of relationships never putting out before I had a commitment and a half dozen dates under my belt.
Valentine Glass
#90. Adam was the image of God, he was man and woman, and yet neither of them before his Eve, but a masculine virgin in peculiar love, full of chastity and purity.
Jakob Bohme
#91. 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
#92. Chastity is not chastity in an old man, but a disability to be unchaste.
John Donne
#93. Obedience in the womb, chastity in the tomb but involuntary poverty all his days.
James Joyce
#94. Chastity always takes its toll. In some it produces pimples; in others, sex laws.
Karl Kraus
#95. I am neither a homosexual nor a eunuch, nor have I ever taken any vows of chastity.
J. Paul Getty
#96. Chastity is the ermine of woman's soul.
Elizabeth I
#97. Chastity is sexual intercourse with affection.
Robert Owen
#98. These practices - non-killing, truthfulness, non-stealing, chastity, and non-receiving - are to be practised by every man, woman, and child; by every soul, irrespective of nation, country, or position.
Swami Vivekananda
#99. Chastity more rarely follows fear, or a resolution, or a vow, than it is the mere effect of lack of appetite and, sometimes even, of distaste.
Andre Gide
#100. For everyone, whatever his state
single, married, widowed, or priest-chastity is a triumphant affirmation of love.
Josemaria Escriva
