William Shakespeare Quotes About Chastity

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

  William Shakespeare

  Jewels, House, Ancestor

  1604-5 Diana. All'sWellThat EndsWell, act 4, sc.2, l.47-50.

• A nun of winter's sisterhood kisses not more religiously; the very ice of chastity is in them.

  William Shakespeare

  Kissing, Winter, Sisterhood

  William Shakespeare (1733). “The works of Shakespeare in seven volumes”, p.238

• If thou dost marry, I'll give thee this plague for thy dowry: be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny.

  William Shakespeare

  Calumny Is, Ice, Snow

  William Shakespeare (1823). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: From the Text of Johnson, Stevens, and Reed; with Glossarial Notes, His Life, and a Critique on His Genius & Writings”, p.920

• Well, in that hit you miss. She'll not be hit With Cupid's arrow. She hath Dian's wit, And, in strong proff of chastity well armed, From Love's weak childish bow she lives uncharmed. She will not stay the siege of loving terms, Nor bide th' encounter of assailing eyes, Nor ope her lap to saint-seducing gold. O, she is rich in beauty; only poor That, when she dies, with dies her store. Act 1,Scene 1, lines 180-197

  William Shakespeare

  Strong, Eye, Arrows

  William Shakespeare (2000). “Romeo and Juliet”, Oxford University Press on Demand

• Of chastity, the ornaments are chaste.

  William Shakespeare

  Ornaments, Chastity, Chaste

  William Shakespeare, Thomas Dolby (1832). “The Shakespearian Dictionary, Forming a General Index to All the Popular Expressions, and Most Striking Passages in the Works of Shakespeare, from a Few Words to Fifty Or More Lines ... By T. Dolby”, p.35

• As chaste as is the bud ere it be blown.

  William Shakespeare

  Bud, Chastity, Chaste

  William Shakespeare, J. M. Nosworthy (2000). “Cymbeline: Second Series”, p.72, Cengage Learning EMEA

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