Top 100 Quotes About Chastity
#1. 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
#2. I have always espoused chastity except when one can no longer resist the temptation.
Edna O'Brien
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition.
Alex Comfort
#6. To acquire and preserve the virtue of chastity, we have need of a good and experienced confessor.
Philip Neri
#7. Love gets used up, Chastity. If it's not returned, it gets used up.
Kristan Higgins
#9. There's something about all the people who are on a mission for purity and chastity, which I find very questionable.
Deniz Gamze Erguven
#10. 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 Friendship is almost as quaint and outdated a notion as chastity.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
#12. If I wanted a life of chastity I'd live with my wife.
Thaddeus White
#13. Someone told me the delightful story of the crusader who put a chastity belt on his wife and gave the key to his best friend for safekeeping, in case of his death. He had ridden only a few miles away when his friend, riding hard, caught up with him, saying 'You gave me the wrong key!
Anais Nin
#14. A man defines his standing at the court of chastity by his views of women.
Amos Bronson Alcott
#15. 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
#16. I said that Lady Chastity has accepted a marriage proposal from Lord Goss. Isn't
Annabel Joseph
#17. You've really got to wear a chastity belt in Washington to preserve your journalistic virginity. Once the secretary of state invites you to lunch
and asks your opinion, you're sunk.
I. F. Stone
#19. 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
#20. Pride is the king of vices ... it is the first of the pallbearers of the soul ... other vices destroy only their opposite virtues, as wantonness destroys chastity; greed destroys temperance; anger destroys gentleness; but pride destroys all virtues.
Fulton J. Sheen
#21. It's like a convent, the hospital. You leave the world behind and take vows of poverty, chastity, obedience.
Carolyn Wheat
#22. The spring without a leaf to toss, bare and bright like a virgin fierce in her chastity, scornful in her purity, was laid out on fields wide-eyed and watchful and entirely careless of what was done or thought by the beholders.
Virginia Woolf
#23. 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
#24. Now that you made me a knight again", he said lightly, "I'll have to keep my mind on certain knightly virtues like chastity."
Ciara could not remember that ever being a knightly virtue.
Shelly Thacker
#25. In temptations against chastity, the spiritual masters advise us, not so much to contend with the bad thought, as to turn the mind to some spiritual, or, at least, indifferent object. It is useful to combat other bad thoughts face to face, but not thoughts of impurity.
Alphonsus Liguori
#26. This is the sad bed of chosen chastity because you are miles and mountains away.
Erica Jong
#27. But chastity means passion, chastity means neurasthenia. And passion and neurasthenia mean instability. And instability means the end of civilization. You can't have a lasting civilization without plenty of pleasant vices.
Aldous Huxley
#28. This detachment (poverty, chastity, etc.) must not be mere amputation; everything which is shaken off must be simultaneously found again at a higher level.
Gabriel Marcel
#29. Julius Caesar divorced his wife Pompeia, but declared at the trial that he knew nothing of what was alleged against her and Clodius. When asked why, in that case, he had divorced her, he replied: Because I would have the chastity of my wife clear even of suspicion.
Plutarch
#30. A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.
Barbara Cartland
#31. 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
#32. Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
Anatole France
#33. 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
#34. All this talk about morality, chastity, prudence and the like are very antiquated notions created by some very old belief systems that are notoriously negative towards women.
Roberto Hogue
#35. When I claim chastity, that's when the fantasy is most vibrant.
C.D. Reiss
#36. A nun of winter's sisterhood kisses not more religiously; the very ice of chastity is in them.
William Shakespeare
#37. 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
#38. Sunny - If you can explain yourself before someone kicks your ass, count your blessings and give some thought to going back to the priesthood.
Nick - I would, but now-a-days that vow of chastity might be a problem.
J.A. Dennam
#39. Consider what importance to society the chastity of women is. Upon that all the property in the world depends. We hang a thief for stealing a sheep; but the unchastity of a woman transfers sheep and farm and all from the right owner.
Samuel Johnson
#40. Chastity is more a state of mind than of anatomy.
Edward Abbey
#41. There is no true Latter-day Saint who would not rather bury a son or a daughter than to have him or her lose his or her chastity - realizing that chastity is of more value than anything else in all the world.
Heber J. Grant
#42. Obedience is a consecration of the heart, chastity of the body, and poverty of all worldly goods to the Love and Service of God. Blessed indeed are the obedient, for God will never permit them to go astray.
Saint Francis De Sales
#43. Da mihi castitatem et continentiam, sed noli modo (Give me chastity and continence, but not just yet)!
Augustine Of Hippo
#44. Chastity is oftener owing to diffidence and shame, than to fortitude of reason or virtue.
Norm MacDonald
#45. What is chastity? How shall a man know if he is chaste? He shall not know it. We have heard of this virtue, but we know not what it is.
Henry David Thoreau
#46. Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
Geoffrey Chaucer
#47. 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
#48. People do not expect to find chastity in a whorehouse. Why, then, do they expect to find honesty and humanity in government, a congeries of institutions whose modus operandi consists of lying, cheating, stealing, and if need be, murdering those who resist?
H.L. Mencken
#49. Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
G.K. Chesterton
#50. Modesty and humility are the sobriety of the mind, as temperance and chastity are of the body.
Benjamin Whichcote
#51. Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.
George Santayana
#52. By reason of its soporigous quality, lettuce ever was, and still continues the principal foundation of the universal tribe of Sallets, which is to cool and refresh, besides its other properties ... including beneficial influences on morals, temperance, and chastity.
John Evelyn
#53. It was with the utmost difficulty that ancient Rome could support the institution of six vestals; but the primitive church was filled with a great number of persons of either sex who had devoted themselves to the profession of perpetual chastity.
Edward Gibbon
#55. Extremes, though contrary, have the like effects. Extreme heat kills, and so extreme cold: extreme love breeds satiety, and so extreme hatred; and too violent rigor tempts chastity, as does too much license.
George Chapman
#56. 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
#57. Her chastity belt's in the back of my car.
Gail McHugh
#58. Charlotte, N.C., 273 Chastity belt, 55 Chaucer, Geoffrey,
Gay Talese
#59. In the first dawning of my youth, I begged of Thee chastity, but by halves, miserable wretch that I am; I said, "Give me chastity, but not yet," afraid that Thou tightest hear me too soon, and heal me of the disease which I wished to have satisfied rather than cured.
Augustine Of Hippo
#60. I have somewhere heard or read the frank confession of a Benedictine abbot: "My vow of poverty has given me a hundred thousand crowns a year; my vow of obedience has raised me to the rank of a sovereign prince." - I forget the consequences of his vow of chastity.
Edward Gibbon
#61. If a shameless woman expects to be defiled and then dies of her fierce love because you do not consent, will chastity also be homicide?
Saint Augustine
#63. 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
#64. There cannot be self-restraint in the absence of desire: when there is no adversary, what avails thy courage? Hark, do not castrate thyself, do not become a monk: chastity depends on the existence of lust.
Rumi
#65. Does she really need that many pairs of kneesocks? Aren't kneesocks just chastity belts for your shins?
Paul Rudnick
#66. The six great gifts of an Irish girl are beauty, soft voice, sweet speech, wisdom, needlework, and chastity.
Theodore Roosevelt
#68. It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife.
Samuel Johnson
#69. Either we must speak as we dress, or dress as we speak. Why do we profess one thing and display another? The tongue talks of chastity, but the whole body reveals impurity.
St. Jerome
#70. 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
#71. Chastity, once lost, cannot be recalled; it goes only once.
Ovid
#73. Chastity, like honesty, is a civic as well as a personal virtue. When a society loses chastity, it begins to destroy itself.
J. William Schickel
#74. Bennett Ryan was a swoony fucking bastard, and tonight - stupid chastity rule or not - I was going to ride him like a horse.
Christina Lauren
#75. Rich men without convictions are more dangerous in modern society than poor women without chastity.
George Bernard Shaw
#76. The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.
Samuel Butler
#77. Do you have everything you need?
No. She needed blinders to keep from staring at him, and a box of tissue to wipe the drool. Throw in some steel armour for her heart and a fail-safe chastity belt, and then she'd be good to go.
Roxanne St. Claire
#78. Pure chastity is beauty to our souls, grace to our bodies, and peace to our desires.
Solon
#79. Those who treat the muslim woman not as an individual but as a symbol either of Islamic chastity or secular liberalism are guilty of the same sin : the objectification of women
Reza Aslan
#80. What is discipleship? It is primarily obedience to the Savior. Discipleship includes many things. It is chastity. It is tithing. It is family home evening. It is keeping all the commandments. It is forsaking anything that is not good for us.
James E. Faust
#81. So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public.
Marquis De Sade
#82. The celibate must firmly keep himself in Brahma Charya (i.e. chastity) until his wife arrives, he has to firmly establish himself in Brahma Charya and it is not possible to remain in Brahma Charya if we do not know how to transmute the sexual energy.
Samael Aun Weor
#84. A secret and ardent stirring within the frozen chastity of the universal.
Thomas Mann
#85. I so loved the nobility of your character, your wisdom, your chastity, your spirit, and indeed every aspect of your life that many people have said to me: What are you doing?
Hildegard Of Bingen
#86. The civilization of cities is breeding a new race of monks who have none of the original religious drive towards chastity, but are just incapable of facing the responsibilities of marriage.
Kylie Tennant
#87. The supreme sway of chastity over the senses makes her queenly.
Joseph Joubert
#88. Chastity by no means signifies rejection of human sexuality or lack of esteem for it: rather it signifies spiritual energy capable of defending love from the perils of selfishness and aggressiveness, and able to advance it towards its full realization.
Pope John Paul II
#89. For the briefest of moments his eyes sparkled before dimming again. However much I would love to get into a discussion about chastity belts, now is not the time. The people we were fighting were not human in the strictest sense of the word.
Michelle Smart
#90. Reading a novel in which all characters illustrate patience, hard work, chastity, and delayed gratification could be a pretty dull experience.
Thomas Perry
#91. Science confounds everything; it gives to the flowers an animal appetite, and takes away from even the plants their chastity.
Joseph Joubert
#92. Of all the sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity.
Remy De Gourmont
#93. This was about getting inside her body, then her mind, before unlocking the chastity belt that was her heart, to steal the soul inside.
Lindsay J. Pryor
#94. Homosexuality is the direct result of chastity in women.
James Jones
#95. We ought to love temperance for itself, and in obedience to God who has commanded it and chastity; but what I am forced to by catarrhs, or owe to the stone, is neither chastity nor temperance.
Michel De Montaigne
#96. Poverty, chastity, and obedience are extremely difficult. But there are always the graces if you will pray for them.
Kathryn Hulme
#97. In normal circumstances a lovely young woman alone would have thought of nothing else; the whole edifice of female government is based on that foundation stone; chastity is their jewel, their centrepiece, which they run mad to protect, and die when ravished of.
Virginia Woolf
#98. I argued that the chastity of women was of much more consequence than that of men, as the property and rights of families depend upon it.
James Boswell
#99. Chastity is not chastity in an old man, but a disability to be unchaste.
John Donne
#100. 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
