quotations about chastity
Chastity with the reins of reason bridleth the rage of lust.
ANONYMOUS
Antiquity: or, The Wise Instructor
I'm gonna seek this thing like a buried treasure
Like Columbus sailing over the sea
Until I discover, baby, the land beyond expertise and chastity
JOHN CALE
"Satisfied", Black Acetate
My poor belated chastity fell foul
Of grown up games
ELVIS COSTELLO
"Little Atoms"
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
Science and Health
How profitable to the spiritual interests of man is this virtue of chastity! Chastity delivers him from a shameful passion which agitates and tyrannises over him unceasingly, which devours and consumes him by that thirst for impure and criminal pleasures and enjoyments which he can neither quench nor satisfy, even by giving it everything it asks of him.
MARIE LATASTE
Letters and Writings
A beautiful and chaste woman is the perfect workmanship of God, and the true glory of angels, the rare miracle of earth, and the sole wonder of the world.
GEORGE HERMES
attributed, Living Like Benjamin
Much of the modern resistance to chastity comes from men's belief that they "own" their bodies -- those vast and perilous estates, pulsating with the energy that made the worlds, in which they find themselves without their consent and from which they are ejected at the pleasure of Another!
C. S. LEWIS
The Screwtape Letters
'Tis Chastity, my brother, Chastity: She that has that, is clad in complete steel.
JOHN MILTON
Poems on Several Occasions
Release yourself upon me
Free the hounds of chastity
K.D. LANG
"Sexuality"
An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
Essays
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
Give me chastity and continence, but not just yet!
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO
Confessions
Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
ANATOLE FRANCE
Heretic's Handbook of Quotations
There is no chastity so agreeable to God as a faithful marriage.
IZARN
attributed, Day's Collacon
Chastity is oftener owing to diffidence and shame, than to fortitude of reason or virtue.
NORMAN MACDONALD
Maxims and Moral Reflections
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
It must be hard sometimes
To stand behind your chastity
And I wish that I could be the one
But it's not me, I'll never set you free
GOOD RIDDANCE
"Holding On"
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
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"
Many a girl will fight for her honor until the man is just about ready to give up.
EVAN ESAR
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