Quotes and Sayings about Chastity

 

 

"Oh Lord, give me chastity, but do not give it yet."
- Saint Augustine
(Related: Chastity)

"Parents have to understand: if your kid isn't you, don't blame the kid."
- Chastity Bono
(Related: Blame, Parents)

"I absolutely believe in assimilation. I don't believe I'm any different from straight people. My wants and needs are the same as theirs. I don't look at sexual orientation as that big of a deal. It's just an orientation."
- Chastity Bono
(Related: People, Needs)

"Deep down, my mom had long suspected I was gay... Much of her anger and hurt came from her sense of betrayal that she was the last to be told."
- Chastity Bono
(Related: Anger, Mom, Betrayal, Deep, Gay, Hurt, Sense)

"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
(Related: Family, Religion, Health, Money, Christian, Chastity, Temper, Want)

"A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts."
- Barbara Cartland
(Related: Romance, Chastity)

"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
(Related: Love, Chastity, Extreme, Extremes, Hatred)

"Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity."
- Geoffrey Chaucer
(Related: Age, Chastity, Old, Will)

"Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism."
- Anton Chekhov
(Related: Love, Chastity, Electricity, Humanity, Justice, Reason, Vegetarianism)

"Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc."
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
(Related: Chastity, Wrong)

"We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition."
- Alex Comfort
(Related: Virtue, Chastity, May)

"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
(Related: Life, Science, Society, Civilization, Progress, Chastity, Stability)

"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
(Related: Christianity, Affection, Chastity, Exercise, Intimacy, Romantic, Sexes)

"Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest."
- Anatole France
(Related: Chastity)

"I am neither a homosexual nor a eunuch, nor have I ever taken any vows of chastity."
- Paul Getty
(Related: Chastity)

"Of all the sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity."
- Remy de Gourmont
(Related: Chastity)

"A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats."
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
(Related: Chastity, Woman)

"Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions."
- Aldous Huxley
(Related: Chastity)

"An unattempted lady could not vaunt of her chastity."
- Michel de Montaigne
(Related: Chastity, Lady)

"An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity."
- Michel de Montaigne
(Related: Chastity, Woman)

"Reading a novel in which all characters illustrate patience, hard work, chastity, and delayed gratification could be a pretty dull experience."
- Thomas Perry
(Related: Experience, Work, Chastity, Hard work, Patience, Pretty, Reading)

"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
(Related: Chastity, Laws, Opinion, Privacy, Public, Silence, Today)

"Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily."
- George Santayana
(Related: Chastity, Skepticism)

"When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing."
- Tacitus
(Related: Chastity, Nothing, Will, Woman)

"Secrecy is the chastity of friendship."
- Jeremy Taylor
(Related: Friendship, Chastity, Secrecy)