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“Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.”
Anatole France Quotes |
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“'Tis Chastity, my brother, Chastity: She that has that, is clad in complete steel”
John Milton Quotes |
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“It is difficult to believe in a religion that places such a high premium on chastity and virginity.”
Madonna Quotes |
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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 Quotes |
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“Lord, Make me chaste, but not yet”
St. Augustine Quotes |
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“Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.”
Unknown Quotes |
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“Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.”
Unknown Quotes |
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“There's a woman like a dew-drop,
She's so purer than the purest.”
Robert Browning Quotes 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.”
Edmund Burke Quotes Source: Reflections on the Revolution in France
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“As pure as a pearl,
And as perfect: a noble and innocent girl.”
Lord Lytton (Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton) ("Owen Meredith") Quotes 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.”
John Milton Quotes 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.”
John Milton Quotes 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.”
Thomas Moore Quotes 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?”
Sir Walter Raleigh Quotes 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.”
William Shakespeare Quotes 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.”
William Shakespeare Quotes 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!”
William Shakespeare Quotes 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.”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: Cymbeline (Posthumus at II, v)
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“A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.”
Jonathan Swift Quotes 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.]”
Tacitus (Caius Cornelius Tacitus) Quotes 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.”
Lord Alfred Tennyson Quotes Source: Godiva (l. 53)
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“Even from the body's purity, the mind
Receives a secret sympathetic aid.”
James Thomson (1) Quotes 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.”
Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes |
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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.”
Barbara Cartland Quotes |
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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.”
Mary Baker Eddy Quotes |
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