quotations about chastity
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,
And in clear dream, and solemn vision,
Tell her of things that no gross ear can hear,
Till oft converse with heav'nly habitants
Begin to cast a beam on th' outward shape,
The unpolluted temple of the mind,
And turns it by degrees to the soul's essence,
Till all be made immortal: but when lust,
By unchaste looks, loose gestures, and foul talk,
But most by lewd and lavish act of sin,
Lets in defilement to the inward parts,
The soul grows clotted by contagion,
Imbodies, and imbrutes, till she quite lose
The divine property of her first being.
JOHN MILTON
Poems on Several Occasions
Chastity is oftener owing to diffidence and shame, than to fortitude of reason or virtue.
NORMAN MACDONALD
Maxims and Moral Reflections
My poor belated chastity fell foul
Of grown up games
ELVIS COSTELLO
"Little Atoms"
Chastity without charity is a lamp without oil.
SAINT BONAVENTURE
The Life of Christ
There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULT
Maxims and Moral Reflections
Beauty without chastity is like a mandrake apple, comely in show, but poisonous in taste.
THOMAS BLOUNT
The Academy of Eloquence
Get your motor running
Come on, dance with me
Your momma and your poppa always hassle me
Get you home by midnight but it's ten to three
Stop huffin' and a'puffin' like a shasta beast
I wanna pick the lock and break your chastity
I've got the combination and the master key
I'm a dancer and romancer not a monster beast
EAGLES OF DEATH METAL
"Shasta Beast"
I call not that virginity a virtue, which resideth only in the bodies integrity; much less if it be with a purpose of perpetually keeping it: for then it is a most inhumane vice. - But I call that Virginity a virtue which is willing and desirous to yield itself upon honest and lawful terms, when just reason requireth; and until then, is kept with a modest chastity of body and mind.
JOHN DONNE
Paradoxes and Problemes
I am no Bible binner
Petty sinner or scandal spinner
But you can stuff your chastity
Your "wait and see", your "not ready"
'Cause we are vigilantes
We're on the streets
We're running free
And you could have me anytime
Just flutter those come to bed eyes
WILD BEASTS
"He the Colossus"
An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
Essays
Nothing makes a woman more esteemed by the opposite sex than chastity; whether it be that we always prize those most who are hardest to come at, or that nothing besides chastity, with its collateral attendants, truth, fidelity, and constancy, gives a man a property in the person he loves, and consequently endears her to him above all things.
JOSEPH ADDISON
The Spectator, Jun. 23, 1711
Release yourself upon me
Free the hounds of chastity
K.D. LANG
"Sexuality"
Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc. In a word, God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.
G. K. CHESTERTON
Tremendous Trifles
My chastity's the jewel of our house,
Bequeathed down from many ancestors.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
All's Well That Ends Well
There is no chastity so agreeable to God as a faithful marriage.
IZARN
attributed, Day's Collacon
The price the Virgin demanded was purity, and the way the educators of Catholic children have interpreted this for nearly two thousand years is sexual chastity. Impurity, we were taught, follows from many sins, but all are secondary to the principal impulse of the devil in the soul--lust.
MARINA WARNER
Alone of All Her Sex
You can put a chastity belt around the body, but you cannot put it around the mind.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips and Quotes
Chastity is the seal of grace.
LADY HUNTINGTON
attributed, Day's Collacon
Celibacy, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies in singularity.
JEREMY TAYLOR
The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor
Many a girl will fight for her honor until the man is just about ready to give up.
EVAN ESAR
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