Chastity Quotes

Chastity is a virtue with some, but with many it is almost a vice.

Rich men without convictions are more dangerous in modern society than poor women without chastity.

Chastity is not chastity in an old man, but a disability to be unchaste.

So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity, That, when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lacky her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt.

The supreme sway of chastity over the senses makes her queenly.

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.

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.

Chastity - you can carry it too far.

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.

An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.

Chastity, once lost, cannot be recalled; it goes only once.

Chastity, like piety, is a uniform grace.

Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity.

The six great gifts of an Irish girl are beauty, soft voice, sweet speech, wisdom, needlework, and chastity.

The most chaste woman may be the most voluptuous, if she truly loves.

As chaste as is the bud ere it be blown.

Of chastity, the ornaments are chaste.

My chastity's the jewel of our house, bequeathed down from many ancestors.

Temperance is the nurse of chastity.

Modesty and humility are the sobriety of the mind, as temperance and chastity are of the body.

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.

A blush is the sign which Nature hangs out to show where chastity and honor dwell.

Science confounds everything; it gives to the flowers an animal appetite, and takes away from even the plants their chastity.

[Christians] practiced moderation and chastity in marriage, for example, and Galen was puzzled at how they were able to do so. His comments are a kind of back-handed compliment, I suppose.

Simplified spelling is all right, but, like chastity, you can carry it too far.

Respectability is joining chastity in the museum of dead issues.

A nun of winter's sisterhood kisses not more religiously; the very ice of chastity is in them.

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.

Liberty, like chastity, once lost, can never be regained in its original purity.

Da mihi castitatem et continentiam, sed noli modo (Give me chastity and continence, but not just yet)!

It's like a convent, the hospital. You leave the world behind and take vows of poverty, chastity, obedience.

Modesty is the chastity of merit, the virginity of noble souls.

There's something about all the people who are on a mission for purity and chastity, which I find very questionable.

I have always espoused chastity except when one can no longer resist the temptation.

Chastity is more a state of mind than of anatomy.

The Church has no double standard of morality. The moral code of heaven for both men and women is complete chastity before marriage and full fidelity after marriage.

It is not always from valor or from chastity that men are brave, and women chaste.

Do hurry and proclaim the concordat. Then castrate yourselves to keep from sinning.

If you would be chaste, you must be temperate.

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.

Chastity, like honesty, is a civic as well as a personal virtue. When a society loses chastity, it begins to destroy itself.

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.

Poverty, chastity, and obedience are extremely difficult. But there are always the graces if you will pray for them.

Chastity works better if you don't keep testing it.

Chastity is now treated as a sexual problem.

A lady could not boast of her chastity who was never tempted.

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.

Larry Summers is to modesty what Madonna is to Chastity.

Like a chastity belt, the package tour keeps you out of mischief but a bit restive for wondering what you missed.

There needs not strength to be added to inviolate chastity; the excellency of the mind makes the body impregnable.