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Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
Author:
Source: None
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There's a woman like a dew-drop,
She's so purer than the purest.
Author: Robert Browning
Source: A Blot in the 'Scutcheon (act I, sc. 3)
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That chastity of honour which felt a stain like a wound.
Author: Edmund Burke
Source: Reflections on the Revolution in France
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As pure as a pearl,
And as perfect: a noble and innocent girl.
Author: Lord Lytton (Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton) ("Owen Meredith")
Source: Lucile (pt. II, canto VI, st. 16)
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'Tis chastity, my brother, chastity;
She that has that is clad in complete steel,
And, like a quiver'd nymph with arrows keen,
May trace huge forests, and unharbour'd heaths,
Infamous hills, and sandy perilous wilds;
Where, through the sacred rays of chastity,
No savage fierce, bandite, or mountaineer,
Will dare to soil her virgin purity.
Author: John Milton
Source: Comus (l. 420)
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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.
Author: John Milton
Source: Comus (l. 453)
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Like the stain'd web that whitens in the sun,
Grow pure by being purely shone upon.
Author: Thomas Moore
Source: Lalla Rookh--The Veiled Prophet of Khorassan
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If she seem not chaste to me,
What care I how chaste she be?
Author: Sir Walter Raleigh
Source: written the night before his death, see Bayley's "Life of Raleigh"
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Mine honor's such a ring;
My chastity's the jewel of our house,
Bequeathed down from many ancestors,
Which were the greatest obloquy i' th' world
In me to lose.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: All's Well That Ends Well (Diana at IV, ii)
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A nun of winter's sisterhood kisses not more religiously; the
very ice of chastity is in them.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: As You Like It (Celia at III, iv)
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The noble sister of Publicola,
The moon of Rome, chaste as the icicle
That's curded by the frost from purest snow
And hangs on Dian's temple--dear Valeria!
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Coriolanus (Coriolanus at V, iii)
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Me of my lawful pleasure she restrained
And prayed me oft forbearance--did it with
A pudency so rosy, the sweet view on't
Might well have warmed old Saturn--that I thought her
As chaste as unsunned snow.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Cymbeline (Posthumus at II, v)
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A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
Author: Jonathan Swift
Source: Introductions to History of the Reformation (preface), by Bishop Burnet
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When a woman has lost her chastity, she will shrink from no
crime.
[Lat., Neque femina amissa pudicitia alia abneurit.]
Author: Tacitus (Caius Cornelius Tacitus)
Source: Annales (IV, 3)
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Then she rode forth, clothed on with chastity:
The deep air listen'd round her as she rode,
And all the low wind hardly breathed for fear.
Author: Lord Alfred Tennyson
Source: Godiva (l. 53)
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Even from the body's purity, the mind
Receives a secret sympathetic aid.
Author: James Thomson (1)
Source: Seasons--Summer (l. 1,269)
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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
Author: Gilbert K. Chesterton
Source: None
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We romantic writers are there to make people feel and not think. A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.
Author: Barbara Cartland
Source: None
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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.
Author: Mary Baker Eddy
Source: None
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There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
Author: Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Source: None
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An unattempted lady could not vaunt of her chastity.
Author: Michel Eyquem De Montaign
Source: None
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