Chastity Quotes

• Pure chastity is beauty to our souls, grace to our bodies, and peace to our desires.

  Solon

  Grace, Soul, Desire

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• If you would be chaste, you must be temperate.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Would Be, Temperance, Chaste

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.274, Penguin

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• When you decide firmly to lead a clean life, chastity will not be a burden on you: it will be a crown of triumph.

  Josemaria Escriva

  Triumph, Crowns, Purity

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• Modesty and chastity are twins

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Modesty, Twins

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• 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.

  Pope John Paul II

  Kindness, Long, Waiting

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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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• Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.

  Aldous Huxley

  Religion, Unnatural, Perversion

  Eyeless in Gaza (1936) ch. 27

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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

  Civilization, Progress, Stability

  Mary Baker Eddy (1949). “The Christian Science Journal”

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• Chastity, or cleanness of heart, holds a glorious and distinguished place among the virtues, because she, alone, enables man to see God; hence Truth itself said, 'Blessed are the clean of heart, for they shall see God.'

  Saint Augustine

  Blessed, Heart, Men

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• 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.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Beautiful, Honesty, Integrity

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• Either we must speak as we dress, or dress as we speak. Why do we profess one thing and display another? The tongue talks of chastity, but the whole body reveals impurity.

  St. Jerome

  Catholic, Dresses, Purity And Love

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• The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.

  Samuel Butler

  Christian, Believe, Health

  Samuel Butler (1950). “The Essential Samuel Butler”, London : J. Cape

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• Chastity ... has, even now, a religious importance in a woman's life, and has so wrapped itself round with nerves and instincts that to cut it free and bring it to the light of day demands courage of the rarest.

  Virginia Woolf

  Religious, Cutting, Light

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.594, Wordsworth Editions

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• Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism.

  Blaise Pascal

  Humility, Pride, Math

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• How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

  Alexander Pope

  Happiness, Sunshine, Obscurity

  "Eloisa to Abelard" l. 207 (1717)

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• Obedience to the law of chastity will increase our happiness in mortality and make possible our progress in eternity.

  David A. Bednar

  Law, Progress, Eternity

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• Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer.

  George Santayana

  Thinking, Firsts, Surrender

  Scepticism and Animal Faith ch. 9 (1923)

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• In temptations against chastity, the spiritual masters advise us, not so much to contend with the bad thought, as to turn the mind to some spiritual, or, at least, indifferent object. It is useful to combat other bad thoughts face to face, but not thoughts of impurity.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Spiritual, Temptation, Catholic

  St. Alphonsus Liguori (2012). “Sermons of St. Alphonsus Liguori: For All the Sundays of the Year”, p.295, TAN Books

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• There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Women, Bored, Virtuous Woman

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

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Vices, Virtue, Sexuality

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

  Madonna Ciccone

  Believe, Agnostic, Premium

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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

  Brother, Arrows, Nymphs

  John Milton (1846). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Milton: With Explanatory Notes and a Life of the Author, by H. Stebbing. To which is Prefixed Dr. Channing's Essay on the Poetical Genius of Milton”, p.410

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• Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Powerful, Age, Literature

  Geoffrey Chaucer (1959). “The Canterbury Tales”

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• Reading a novel in which all characters illustrate patience, hard work, chastity, and delayed gratification could be a pretty dull experience.

  Thomas Perry

  Patience, Reading, Hard Work

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• Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Friendship, Secret, Secrecy

  Jeremy Taylor (1834). “The Beauties of J. Taylor: Selected from His Works with an Essay on His Life and Writings”, p.569

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