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Chastity Quotes

Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them.

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.320, Courier Corporation

Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect...

"Scepticism and Animal Faith". Book by George Santayana, 1923.

Chastity is the most unpopular of the Christian virtues.

C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.127, Simon and Schuster

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

St Philip Neri (2009). “The Maxims and Sayings of St Philip Neri”, p.19, St Athanasius Press

To the pure all things are pure!

Marcel Proust (2006). “Remembrance of Things Past”, p.1081, Wordsworth Editions

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

James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Edmond Malone (1824). “The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished”, p.378

Chastity - you can carry it too far.

Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain’s Letters & Speeches (Annotated Edition)”, p.1087, Jazzybee Verlag

Temperance is the nurse of chastity.

William Wycherley, William Congreve, Sir John Vanbrugh, George Farquhar (1871). “The Dramatic Works of Wycherley, Congreve, Vanbrugh, and Farquhar :”, p.20

Of chastity, the ornaments are 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, J. M. Nosworthy (2000). “Cymbeline: Second Series”, p.72, Cengage Learning EMEA

Chastity, like piety, is a uniform grace.

Samuel Richardson (1755). “A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...”, p.92

An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.

Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, 1595.