Top 202 Chastity Quotes & Sayings

Chastity is the most unpopular of the Christian virtues.

Of chastity, the ornaments are chaste.

Do you have to do murder? Do we have to do murder? Sure we have to do murder. There are only two subjects--a woman's chastity, and murder. Nobody's interested in chastity any more. Murder's all we got to write stories about.

Chastity - you can carry it too far.

Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.

But there is a beauty every girl has—a gift from God, as pure as the sunlight, and as sacred as life. It is a beauty that all men love, a virtue that wins all men's souls. That beauty is chastity. Chastity without skin beauty may enkindle the soul; skin beauty without chastity can kindle only the eye. Chastity enshrined in the mold of true womanhood will hold true love eternally.

Chastity is curable, if detected early.

Chastity is a difficult long term matter, one must wait patiently for it to bear fruit for the happiness of loving kindness which it must bring. But at the same time chastity is the sure way to happiness.

An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.

Of all the sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity.

Chastity is now treated as a sexual problem.

Priority is placed on the chastity of women. You can be corrupt, or a murderer and still hold your head up high on the street without problems, whereas if there are any suspicions of your chastity and moral behaviour as a woman, you get lynched.

Chastity, like piety, is a uniform grace.

Modesty and humility are the sobriety of the mind, as temperance and chastity are of the body.

It is Chastity, my brother. She that has that is clad in complete steel.

Our vow of chastity is nothing but our undivided love for Christ in chastity, then we proceed to the freedom of poverty-poverty is nothing but freedom. And that total surrender is obedience. If I belong to God, if I belong to Christ, then he must be able to use me. That is obedience. Then we give wholehearted service to the poor. That is service. They complete each other. That is our life.

Respectability is joining chastity in the museum of dead issues.

Chastity is a virtue with some, but with many it is almost a vice.

It is difficult to believe in a religion that places such a high premium on chastity and virginity.

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.

Chastity is the ermine of woman's soul.

A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.

We ought to love temperance for itself, and in obedience to God who has commanded it and chastity; but what I am forced to by catarrhs, or owe to the stone, is neither chastity nor temperance.

Chastity, like honesty, is a civic as well as a personal virtue. When a society loses chastity, it begins to destroy itself.

It is amusing that a virtue is made of the vice of chastity; and it's a pretty odd sort of chastity at that, which leads men straight into the sin of Onan, and girls to the waning of their color.

The essence of chastity is not the suppression of lust, but the total orientation of one's life towards a goal. Without such a goal, chastity is bound to become ridiculous. Chastity is the sine qua non of lucidity and concentration.

Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.

A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats. You may strip off the outer ones without doing much mischief, perhaps none at all ; but you keep taking off one after another, in expectation of coming to the inner nucleus, including the whole value of the matter. It proves, however, that there is no such nucleus, and that chastity is diffused through the whole series of coats, is lessened with the removal of each, and vanishes with the final one which you supposed would introduce you to the hidden pearl.

A clean heart is a free heart. A free heart can love Christ with an undivided love in chastity, convinced that nothing and nobody will separate it from his love. Purity, chastity, and virginity created a special beauty in Mary that attracted God's attention. He showed his great love for the world by giving Jesus to her.

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

Modesty and chastity are twins

Temperance is the nurse of chastity.

Chastity is more a state of mind than of anatomy.

Chastity is sexual intercourse with affection.

Beauty is the flower of chastity.

To acquire and preserve the virtue of chastity, we have need of a good and experienced confessor.

Chastity works better if you don't keep testing it.

Larry Summers is to modesty what Madonna is to Chastity.

A lady could not boast of her chastity who was never tempted.

Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity.

For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.

Simplified spelling is all right, but, like chastity, you can carry it too far.

The supreme sway of chastity over the senses makes her queenly.

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.

A Nuns Life: Chastity, poverty, and obedience. Wait, chastity?" BUMPER STICKER

Chastity is not chastity in an old man, but a disability to be unchaste.

Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.

Modesty is the chastity of merit, the virginity of noble souls.

It is not always from valor or from chastity that men are brave, and women chaste.

Chastity is the lily of virtues, and makes men almost equal to Angels. Everything is beautiful in accordance with its purity. Now the purity of man is chastity, which is called honesty, and the observance of it, honor and also integrity; and its contrary is called corruption; in short, it has this peculiar excellence above the other virtues, that it preserves both soul and body fair and unspotted.

Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.

Fighting for peace, is like f***ing for chastity

Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.

In Tibet there is no marriage, and there is no jealousy, yet we know that marriage is a much higher state. The Tibetans have not known the wonderful enjoyment, the blessing of chastity, the happiness of having a chaste, virtuous wife, or a chaste, virtuous husband. These people cannot feel that. And similarly they do not feel the intense jealousy of the chaste wife or husband, or the misery caused by unfaithfulness on either side, with all the heart-burnings and sorrows which believers in chastity experience. On one side, the latter gain happiness, but on the other, they suffer misery too.

It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife.

Now to understand the significance of chastity within us, we have to know that chastity is the foundation of all dharmas. Unless and until you have sense of chastity you cannot have dharma.

There is no true Latter-day Saint who would not rather bury a son or a daughter than to have him or her lose his or her chastity - realizing that chastity is of more value than anything else in all the world.

A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.

Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect...

I have always espoused chastity except when one can no longer resist the temptation.