quotations about chastity
A woman's character is as delicate as her eye; it can bear no flaw.
G. A. SALA
attributed, Notable Thoughts about Women: A Literary Mosaic
The whole idea we have for their chastity is ridiculous. They would have to become numb and invisible to please us. I don't know whether the exploits of Alexander and Caesar really surpass the resolution of a beautiful young woman, bred up in the light and commerce of our society, who still keeps herself whole. There is no doing so hard as not doing.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
Autobiography
We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition.
ALEX COMFORT
Sex in Society
Chastity is a sublime virtue, its source is infinitely exalted, since it comes from God ; its efficacy prevents man from sinking to the level of irrational animals ; it elevates him to the very Author of reason.
MARIE LATASTE
Letters and Writings
The weight of chastity
Makes her eyes cast down
And the skin of humility
Is white as snow
CORONER
"Pale Sister", Mental Vortex
Chastity works better if you don't keep testing it.
LAURELL K. HAMILTON
The Killing Dance
How unhappy must be the unchaste mother, whose very tenderness to her illegitimate offspring reminds her of her guilt.
SAMUEL RICHARDSON
Sir Charles Grandison
Love clamors far more incessantly and passionately at a closed gate than an open one!
MARIE CORELLI
The Master Christian
Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horse pond.
THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK
Melincourt
Virtuous women are like concealed treasures--they are secure because nobody seeks them.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULT
Maxims and Moral Reflections
Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER
The Canterbury Tales
For chastity is like a spring flower, always softly exhaling immortality from its white petals.
METHODIUS
The Sacred Writings of Saint Methodius
Beauty, like the flowers of the spring, is fair to the sight but quickly fades; but chastity is like the stars of Heaven, that always shine with refulgent brightness.
JOHN FAUCIT SAVILLE
Fair Rosamond; or, The Bower of Woodstock
The soul whose bosom lust did never touch
Is God's fair bride; and maiden's souls are such.
THOMAS DEKKER
The Honest Whore
A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats. You may strip off the outer ones without doing much mischief, perhaps none at all ; but you keep taking off one after another, in expectation of coming to the inner nucleus, including the whole value of the matter. It proves, however, that there is no such nucleus, and that chastity is diffused through the whole series of coats, is lessened with the removal of each, and vanishes with the final one which you supposed would introduce you to the hidden pearl.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
Notes of Travel, Mar. 16, 1854
A life of chastity ... is the road that leadeth to Nirvana.
GAUTAMA BUDDHA
Iti-Vuttaka
Chastity--the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.
ALDOUS HUXLEY
Ends and Means
Chastity is a necessary virtue: for it is written that nothing defiled shall enter into the Kingdom of Heaven; and without chastity it is impossible not to defile both body and soul.
MARIE LATASTE
Letters and Writings
As chaste as unsunn'd snow.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Cymbeline
Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity.
TERTULLIAN
attributed, Many Thoughts of Many Minds