Top 100 Quotes About Chaste
#1. Christianity taught that men ought to be as chaste as pagans thought honest women ought to be; the contraceptive morality teaches that women need to be as little chaste as pagans thought men need be.
G. E. M. Anscombe
#2. The spouse of Christ cannot be defiled; she is uncorrupted and chaste.
Cyprian
#3. His love with Lucy bled from his heart as he slipped into a dark despair - a melancholy that only she could sever with her chaste voice and tender kisses. Now in an unreachable darkness, a blindness took hold. A blood lust that would drive him mad for five years hence.
Solange Nicole
#4. Virginity, like all monstrosities, possesses special riches and its own absorbing grandeur. Among the chaste, life forces are economized and thus gain in resistance and durability.
Honore De Balzac
#5. To give her some incentive, he took her hands away from her face and kissed her. It was a soft, chaste kiss, but it wasn't short and it wasn't brotherly.
L.J.Smith
#6. He who is chaste in flesh should not be proud, for he should know that he owes the gift of continence to another.
Pope Clement I
#7. A nude by Degas is chaste. But his women wash in tubs! ...
Paul Gauguin
#8. Art is never chaste. It ought to be forbidden to ignorant innocents, never allowed into contact with those not sufficiently prepared. Yes, art is dangerous. Where it is chaste, it is not art.
Pablo Picasso
#9. There is no jewel in the world so valuable as a chaste and virtuous woman.
Miguel De Cervantes
#10. So a maiden, while she remains untouched, remains dear to her own; but when she has lost her chaste flower with sullied body, she remains neither lovely to boys nor dear to girls.
Catullus
#12. One of the cool, chaste countries - Canada or Sweden.
John Updike
#13. A certain percentage, they tell us, must every year go... that way... to the devil, I suppose, so that the rest may remain chaste, and not be interfered with.
Anton Chekhov
#14. Tell me who is able to keep his bed chaste, or which goddess is able to live with one god alone?
Sextus Propertius
#15. Handsome men could cast spells of magic that would cloud a woman's mind, no matter how chaste she was.
Emma Lane
#16. Manye chapeleyns arn chaste, ac charite is aweye; Are none hardere than hii whan hii ben avaunced: Unkynde to hire kyn and to alle Cristene, Chewen hire charite and chiden after moore - Swich chastite withouten charite worth cheyned in helle.
William Langland
#17. No man of honor, as the word is usually understood, did ever pretend that his honor obliged him to be chaste or temperate, to pay his creditors, to be useful to his country, to do good to mankind, to endeavor to be wise or learned, to regard his word, his promise, or his oath.
Jonathan Swift
#19. Tarnelius leaned forward to give her a chaste peck on the lips.
"That's all I get?"
"Yes, that's all you get until you make the bond with me," Tarnelius said, smiling.
"That's blackmail."
"Hmm, so it is. I can live with that.
D.S. Schmeckpeper
#21. Silence and chaste reserve is woman's genuine praise, and to remain quiet within the house.
Euripides
#22. We are much mistaken if we think that men are always brave from a principle of valor, or women chaste from a principle of modesty.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#23. Grantaire, earthbound in doubt, loved to watch Enjolras soaring in the upper air of faith. He needed Enjolras. Without being fully aware of it, or seeking to account for it himself, he was charmed by that chaste, upright, inflexible and candid nature.
Victor Hugo
#24. There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet.
Eric Hoffer
#25. Hello, Grace's parents. I'm Grace's boyfriend. Please notice the chaste distance between us. I am very responsible and have never had my tongue in your daughter's mouth.
Maggie Stiefvater
#27. The ladies of Cranford always dressed with chaste elegance and propriety ...
Elizabeth Gaskell
#28. No. I'll call you Monday after class." Morgan slid of his stool, gazed seriously at Dan, then bent forward to bestow a chaste kiss to his cheek. Danny watched him leave, bemused.
Griff snickered. "Ohh, Danny. A cute boy kissed you. Are you ever going to wash that cheek again?
Lee Brazil
#30. Too chaste an adolescence makes for a dissolute old age. It is doubtless easier to give up something one has known than something one imagines.
Andre Gide
#31. A vice in common can be the ground of a friendship but not a virtue in common. X and Y may be friends because they are both drunkards or womanizers but, if they are both sober and chaste, they are friends for some other reason.
W. H. Auden
#32. I should like, if I could, to leave a humble gift
a bit of chaste prose that had caught up some noble moods.
Max Ehrmann
#33. I want a bedroom near the sky, an astrologer's cave
Where I can fashion eclogues that are chaste and grave.
John Ashbery
#34. The learned are envied by the foolish; rich men by the poor; chaste women by adulteresses; and beautiful ladies by ugly ones.
Chanakya
#35. All major religions put most of the responsibility for sexual morality on women. Religions teach that women should remain chaste and should control and hide their sexuality so men will not be tempted.
Darrel Ray
#36. Truly? You've been chaste for that long?"
"'Chaste' implies a purity of thought that I assure you does not apply. But I have been celibate.
Lisa Kleypas
#37. That's as it should be, they tell us. A certain percentage, they tell us, must every year go, that way, to the devil, I suppose, so that the rest may remain chaste, and not be interfered with. A percentage! What splendid words they have; they are so scientific, so consolatory.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#39. Love binds people too, in matrimony's sacred bonds where chaste lovers are met, and friends cement their trust and friendship. How happy is mankind, if the love that orders the stars above rules, too, in your hearts.
Boethius
#41. Only the chaste man and the chaste woman are capable of true love.
Pope John Paul II
#42. A chaste and lucid style is indicative of the same personal traits in the author.
Hosea Ballou
#43. The householder must always please his wife with money, clothes, love and faith and never do anything to disturb her. That man who has succeeded in getting the love of a chaste wife has succeeded in his religion and has all the virtues.
Swami Vivekananda
#44. He who, with strong passions, remains chaste
he who, keenly sensitive, with manly power of indignation in him, can yet restrain himself and forgive
these are strong men, spiritual heroes.
Frederick William Robertson
#46. We got to know each other on an intimate yet chaste level.
Kody Brown
#49. The chaste mind, like a polished plane, may admit foul thoughts, without receiving their tincture.
Laurence Sterne
#50. Do you know that women who are chaste remain much fresher than those who are not?
Michelangelo
#51. It hath evermore been the notorious badge of prostituted Strumpets and the lewdest Harlots, to ramble abroad to Plays, to Playhouses; whither no honest, chaste or sober Girls or Women, but only branded Whores and infamous Adulteresses, did usually resort in ancient times.
William Prynne
#52. A pure mind in a chaste body is the mother of wisdom and deliberation; sober counsels and ingenuous actions; open deportment and sweet carriage; sincere principles and unprejudiced understanding; love of God and self-denial; peace and confidence; hol
Jeremy Taylor
#53. Vanity bids all her sons be brave, and all her daughters chaste and courteous.
Laurence Sterne
#54. It's curious and ridiculous how much the gaze of a prudish and painfully chaste man touched by love can sometimes express and that precisely at a moment when the man would of course sooner be glad to fall through the earth than to express anything with a word or a look.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#55. Early, bright, transient, chaste as morning dew, She sparkled, was exhaled, and went to heaven.
Edward Young
#56. God I want you
in some primal, wild way
animals want each other.
Untamed and full of teeth.
God I want you,
In some chaste, Victorian way.
A glimpse of your ankle
just kills me.
Clementine Von Radics
#57. I hear not all priests are that chaste these days.
Sierra Simone
#58. Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the PRIVACY of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#59. A man that lives on pork, fine-flour bread, rich pies and cakes, and condiments, drinks tea and coffee, and uses tobacco, might as well try to fly as to be chaste in thought.
John Harvey Kellogg
#60. When I began, poetry was very academic. You published little pamphlets from fancy presses. It was rather ... chaste. There wasn't much public reading. Then there was poetry and jazz, which I don't think worked, though I love jazz.
John Fuller
#61. I would not like to see a person who is sober, moderate, chaste and just say that there is no God. They would speak disinterestedly at least, but such a person is not to be found.
Jean De La Bruyere
#62. I henceforth tread the world, chaste, temperate, an early riser, a steady grower.
Walt Whitman
#64. With chaste affections man and wife In solemn wedlock it entwines. Love's laws most trusty comrades bind. How happy is the human race, 30 If Love, by which the heavens are ruled, To rule men's minds is set in place!
Boethius
#65. Be warm, be pure, be amorous, but be chaste.
Lord Byron
#66. The chaste woman who teases is worse than a streetwalker.
James Huneker
#67. Who doth desire that chaste his wife should be, first be he true, for truth doth truth deserve.
Philip Sidney
#68. People are tired of liberty. They have had a surfeit of it. Liberty is no longer a chaste and austere virgin ... Today's youth are moved by other slogans ... Order, Hierarchy, Discipline.
Benito Mussolini
#71. Well, sir, embrace me once, as you would embrace your daughter, and I swear to you that that kiss, the only chaste kiss I have ever had, will make me strong against my love, and that within a week your son will be once more at your side, perhaps unhappy for a time, but cured forever.
Alexandre Dumas-fils
#73. Capricious and unfaithful, the king wished to be called Louis the Just and Louis the Chaste. Posterity will find a difficulty in understanding this character, which history explains only by facts and never by reason.
Alexandre Dumas
#74. It is preferable to have a virgin mind than a virgin body. Each is good if each be possible; if it be not possible, let me be chaste, not to man but to God.
Ambrose Of Milan
#75. A writer should be of as great probity and honesty as a priest of God. He is either honest or not, as a woman is either chaste or not, and after one piece of dishonest writing he is never the same again.
Ernest Hemingway,
#76. To be discreet, '"he looked up to glare at Aethelflaed, "'chaste! Keepers of the home! Good! Obedient to their husbands!' Those are God's own words! That is what God demands of a woman! To be discreet, to be chaste, to be home-keepers, to be obedient! God spoke to us!
Bernard Cornwell
#77. Nothing is gained except by sacrifice ... Do not degrade it to the level of the brutes ... Make yourselves decent men! ... Be chaste and pure! ... There is no other way. Did Christ find any other way?
Swami Vivekananda
#79. Liberty is no longer the virgin, chaste and severe, to be fought for ... we have buried the putrid corpse of liberty ... the Italian people are a race of sheep.
Benito Mussolini
#80. The most virtuous women have something within them, something that is never chaste.
Honore De Balzac
#81. Aristotle described the Crow as chaste. In some departments of knowledge, Aristotle was too innocent for his own good.
Will Cuppy
#82. 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.
Georg Hermes
#83. Do not say that you have chaste minds if you have unchaste eyes, because an unchaste eye is the messenger of an unchaste heart.
Saint Augustine
#84. When chaste people need body or mind to resort to action or thought, they find steel in their muscles or knowledge in their intelligence. Theirs the diabolic vigor or the black magic of will power.
Honore De Balzac
#85. A girl fresh from a boarding school may perhaps be a virgin but no! she is never chaste.
Honore De Balzac
#87. We tap our toes to chaste love songs about the silvery moon without recognizing them as hymns to copulation.
Barbara Kingsolver
#88. Did Romeo and Juliet have a ... "relationship"? The term "relationship" ... betokens a chaste egalitarianism leveling different ranks and degrees of attachment.
Allan Bloom
#89. I was the first companion to kiss the Doctor. I played Grace Holloway to Paul McGann's Doctor in the 1996 TV movie. We shared three kisses, in fact: very sweet and chaste. When I took the part, I'd never even heard of 'Doctor Who.' No one warned me that the kisses would be a big deal.
Daphne Ashbrook
#90. Chaste is she whom no one has asked.
Ovid
#91. To right, the unrightable wrong, to love pure and chaste from a-far, to try when your arms are too weary, to reach the unreachable star.
Jack Jones
#92. What I call Professionalism someone else might call the Artist's Code or the Warrior's Way. It's an attitude of egolessness and service. The Knights of the Round Table were chaste and self-effacing. Yet they dueled dragons.
Steven Pressfield
#93. The moon of Rome, chaste as the icicle that's curded by the frost from purest snow.
William Shakespeare
#94. A hermit said, "Do not judge an adulterer if you are chaste or you will break the law of God just as much as he does. For he who said 'Do not commit adultery' also said 'Do not judge.
Rowan Williams
#95. What a beautiful and chaste-looking mouth! from floor to ceiling, lines, or rather papered with a glistening white membrane, glossy as bridal satins.
Herman Melville
#96. Touching wasn't orchestrated or choreographed to fulfill the requirements of foreplay. It was an event all its own. And it was erotically chaste, tender, and telling.
Amy Harmon
#98. There is something almost shocking in the notion of so chaste a function carrying this Kantian hurlyburly in her womb.
William James
#99. Let your eye be chaste, your hand faithful, your tongue truthful and your heart enlightened.
Baha'u'llah
#100. A houri stroked the top of Isaac's head. "Are you truly pure?" he asked.
"We are as chaste as the sheltered eggs of ostriches."
"How dull," Isaac replied.
Rabih Alameddine
