Chaste Quotes

• The most virtuous women have within them something that is never chaste.

  Honore de Balzac

  Literature, Virtuous Woman, Virtuous

  "The Physiology of Marriage and Pierre Grassou".

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• A beautiful and chaste woman is the perfect workmanship of God, and the true glory of angels, the rare miracle of earth, and the sole wonder of the world.

  Georg Hermes

  Beautiful, Angel, Perfect

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• Love is a great thing...which alone maketh every burden light.. Love is watchful, and while sleeping, still keeps watch; though fatigued, it is not weary; though pressed, it is not forced. Love is sincere, gentle, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, and manly. Love is humble and upright, not weak, not fickle, nor intent on vain things; sober chaste, steadfast, quiet, and guarded in all the senses.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Marriage, Strong, Humble

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• Art is never chaste. It ought to be forbidden to ignorant innocents, never allowed into contact with those not sufficiently prepared. Yes, art is dangerous. Where it is chaste, it is not art.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Ignorant, Censorship

  "Picasso". Book by Antonina Vallentin (p. 168), 1963 (1957).

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• The eye of a man should be still more reverent before the rising of a young maiden than before the rising of a star. The possibility of touch should increase respect. The down of the peach, the dust of the plum, the radiated crystal of snow, the butterfly’s wing powdered with feathers, are gross things beside that chastity that does not even know it is chaste. The young maiden is only the glimmer of a dream and is not yet statue. Her alcove is hidden in the shadows of the ideal. The indiscreet touch of the eye desecrates this dim penumbra. Here, to gaze, is to profane.

  Victor Hugo

  Dream, Stars, Butterfly

  Victor Hugo (1987). “Les Misérables”, Signet Classics

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• Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Mean, Doe, Arcs

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

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Onions, Literature, Coats

  Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Julian Hawthorne (2015). “Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Letters, Diaries, Reminiscences and Extensive Biographies: Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned American Novelist, Author of “The Scarlet Letter”, “The House of Seven Gables” and “Twice-Told Tales””, p.476, e-artnow

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• But, irreverently consorting with these grave, reputable, and pious people, these elders of the church, these chaste dames and dewy virgins, there were men of dissolute lives and women of spotted fame, wretches given over to all mean and filthy vice, and suspected even of horrid crimes. It was strange to see that the good shrank not from the wicked, nor were the sinners abashed by the saints.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Mean, Men, People

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (1982). “Tales and Sketches”, p.285, Library of America

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• Queen and huntress, chaste and fair Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy silver chair, State in wonted manner keep: Hesperus entreats thy light Goddess, excellently bright.

  Ben Jonson

  Queens, Sleep, Light

  Cynthia's Revels act 5, sc. 3 (1600)

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• There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet.

  Eric Hoffer

  Mind, Literature, Chastity

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• Only the chaste man and the chaste woman are capable of true love.

  Pope John Paul II

  Men, Catholic, Purity And Love

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• My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language.

  Edward Gibbon

  Obscurity, Language, Obscenity

  Edward Gibbon (1900). “The Memoirs of the Life of Edward Gibbon with Various Observations and Excursions”

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• I would not like to see a person who is sober, moderate, chaste and just say that there is no God. They would speak disinterestedly at least, but such a person is not to be found.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  God, Sober, Speak

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• Command those that govern your house before all you household that they keep careful watch that all your household, within and without, be faithful, painstaking, chaste, clean, honest and profitable.

  Robert Grosseteste

  House, Faithful, Watches

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• Tell me who is able to keep his bed chaste, or which goddess is able to live with one god alone?

  Propertius

  Bed, Able, Goddess

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• Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Sarcastic, Sarcasm, People

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2013). “The Greatest Works of Dostoevsky: Crime and Punishment + The Brother's Karamazov + The Idiot + Notes from Underground + The Gambler + Demons (The Possessed / The Devils)”, p.2157, e-artnow

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• Take me to you, imprison me, for I, except you enthrall me, never shall be free, nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.

  John Donne

  Infatuation, Take Me

  'Holy Sonnets' (after 1609) no. 10 (in J. Carey's edition, OUP, 1990)

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• Of chastity, the ornaments are chaste.

  William Shakespeare

  Ornaments, Chastity

  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

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• So a maiden, whilst she remains untouched, so long is she dear to her own; when she has lost her chaste flower with sullied body, she remains neither lovely to boys nor dear to girls.

  Catullus

  Girl, Flower, Boys

  "Delphi Complete Works of Catullus".

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• The most chaste woman may be the most voluptuous, if she truly loves.

  Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau

  May, Voluptuous, Chastity

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• Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.

  Andre Gide

  Age, Youth, Old Age

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• Vanity bids all her sons be brave, and all her daughters chaste and courteous.

  Laurence Sterne

  Daughter, Son, Vanity

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• Be humble in this life, that God may raise you up in the next. Be truly moderate and do not punish or condemn anyone immoderately. Be gentle so that you may never oppose justice. Be honorable so that you may never voluntarily bring disgrace upon anyone. Be chaste so that you may avoid all the foulness of lust like the pangs of death.

  Stephen I of Hungary

  Humble, Justice, Catholic

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• As chaste as unsunned snow.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Love You, Snow

  'Cymbeline' (1609-10) act 2, sc. 5, l. 12

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• A Roman divorced from his wife, being highly blamed by his friends, who demanded, "Was she not chaste? Was she not fair? Was she not fruitful?" holding out his shoe, asked them whether it was not new and well made. "Yet," added he, "none of you can tell where it pinches me.''

  Plutarch

  Friendship, Divorce, Shoes

  Plutarch (2000). “The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, Volume I: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.519, Modern Library

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