Quotes on Chastity

Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.

Author: Saint Augustine

Oh Lord, give me chastity, but do not give it yet.

Author: Saint Augustine

Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.

Author: Gilbert Chesterton

Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.

Author: Anatole France

I am neither a homosexual nor a eunuch, nor have I ever taken any vows of chastity.

Author: Paul Getty

Of all the sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity.

Author: Remy Gourmont

A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.

Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne

Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.

Author: Aldous Huxley

An unattempted lady could not vaunt of her chastity.

Author: Michel Montaigne

An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.

Author: Michel Montaigne

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.

Author: Marquis Sade

Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.

Author: George Santayana

When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.

Author: Tacitus