CHASTITY QUOTES III

quotations about chastity

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Chastity consists in a fixed abhorrence of all forbidden sensual indulgences, a recollection of past impurities with shame and sorrow; a resolute guard over our thoughts, passions, and actions for the future; a steady abstinence from the distant approaches of evil desires and indecency.

REV. J. BEAUMONT

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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

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Chastity is oftener owing to diffidence and shame, than to fortitude of reason or virtue.

NORMAN MACDONALD

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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

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There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.

FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULT

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Chastity without charity is a lamp without oil.

SAINT BONAVENTURE

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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

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An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.

MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

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Beauty without chastity is like a mandrake apple, comely in show, but poisonous in taste.

THOMAS BLOUNT

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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

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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

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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

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You can put a chastity belt around the body, but you cannot put it around the mind.

EVAN ESAR

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Release yourself upon me
Free the hounds of chastity

K.D. LANG

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There is no chastity so agreeable to God as a faithful marriage.

IZARN

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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

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My chastity's the jewel of our house,
Bequeathed down from many ancestors.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

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Chastity is the seal of grace.

LADY HUNTINGTON

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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

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Many a girl will fight for her honor until the man is just about ready to give up.

EVAN ESAR

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