22 Quotes on Chastity

• Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.

  Author: Jeremy Taylor

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

  Author: Tacitus

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

  Author: George Santayana

• 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

• Reading a novel in which all characters illustrate patience, hard work, chastity, and delayed gratification could be a pretty dull experience.

  Author: Thomas Perry

• An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.

  Author: Michel Montaigne

• An unattempted lady could not vaunt of her chastity.

  Author: Michel Montaigne

• Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.

  Author: Aldous Huxley

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

  Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

  Author: Remy Gourmont

• 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, chastity is the strangest.

  Author: Anatole France

• 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.

  Author: Havelock Ellis

• We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition.

  Author: Alex Comfort

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

  Author: Gilbert Chesterton

• Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism.

  Author: Anton Chekhov

• Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.

  Author: Geoffrey Chaucer

• 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.

  Author: George Chapman

• A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.

  Author: Barbara Cartland

• 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.

  Author: Samuel Butler

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

  Author: Saint Augustine

• Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.

  Author: Saint Augustine

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