Quotes with chastity

  • Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism.

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  • Henry David Thoreau The generative energy, which, when we are loose, dissipates and makes us unclean, when we are continent invigorates and inspires us. Chastity is the flowering of man; and what are called Genius, Heroism, Holiness, and the like, are but various fruits which succeed it.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Barbara Cartland A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.
    Barbara Cartland
    English author of romance novels (1901 - 2000)
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  • Nathaniel Hawthorne A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    American short story writer (1804 - 1864)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne An unattempted lady could not vaunt of her chastity.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Aldous Huxley Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley Chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition, a greater foe to natural temperance even than unintellectual sensuality.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Mary Baker Eddy 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
    American founder of the Christian Science Church (1821 - 1910)
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  • St. Augustine of Hippo Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
    St. Augustine of Hippo
    Roman African Christian theologian and philosopher (354 - 430)
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  • Lord George Byron I am as comfortless as a pilgrim with peas in his shoes - and as cold as Charity, Chastity or any other Virtue.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • George Sand I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.
    George Sand
    French writer (1804 - 1876)
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  • Madame de Girardin Modesty is the chastity of merit, the virginity of noble souls.
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  • C. S. Lewis 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
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Anatole France Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • Remy de Gourmont Of all the sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity.
    Remy de Gourmont
    French writer, poet and philosopher (1858 - 1915)
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  • Anton Chekhov Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism.
    Anton Chekhov
    Russian playwright and short story writer
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  • Jeremy Taylor Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.
    Jeremy Taylor
    British churchman and writer (1613 - 1667)
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  • George Santayana Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Marquis de Sade So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public.
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • Christian Nevell Bovee The highest virtue found in the tropics is chastity, and in the colder regions, temperance.
    Christian Nevell Bovee
    American writer
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