Quote: Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
Author: Gilbert K. Chesterton 1874-1936, British Author
Quote: 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.
Author: Mary Baker Eddy 1821-1910, American Founder of the Christian Science Church
Quote: It is fatally easy for Western folk, who have discarded chastity as a value for themselves, to suppose that it can have no value for anyone else. At the same time as Californians try to re-invent ''celibacy,'' by which they seem to mean perverse restraint, the rest of us call societies which place a high value on chastity ''backward.''
Author: Germaine Greer 1939-, Australian Feminist Writer
Quote: A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne 1804-1864, American Novelist, Short Story Writer
Quote: There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet.
Author: Eric Hoffer 1902-1983, American Author, Philosopher
Quote: There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
Author: Francois De La Rochefoucauld 1613-1680, French Classical Writer
Quote: 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!
Author: C. S. Lewis 1898-1963, British Academic, Writer, Christian Apologist
Quote: 'Tis chastity, my brother, chastity. She that has that is clad in complete steel, and like a quivered nymph with arrows keen may trace huge forests and unharbored heaths, infamous hills and sandy perilous wilds, where through the sacred rays of chastity, no savage fierce, bandit, or mountaineer will dare to soil her virgin purity.
Author: John Milton 1608-1674, British Poet
Quote: An unattempted lady could not vaunt of her chastity.
Author: Michel Eyquem De Montaigne 1533-1592, French Philosopher, Essayist
Quote: These people abstain, it is true: but the bitch Sensuality glares enviously out of all they do.
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche 1844-1900, German Philosopher
Quote: How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
Author: Alexander Pope 1688-1744, British Poet, Critic, Translator
Quote: Your old virginity is like one of our French withered pears: it looks ill, it eats dryly.
Author: William Shakespeare 1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor
Quote: Chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition, a greater foe to natural temperance even than unintellectual sensuality.
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792-1822, British Poet
Quote: God hath prepared a little coronet or special reward (extraordinary and beside the great crown of all faithful souls) for those who have not defiled themselves with women.
Author: Jeremy Taylor 1613-1667, British Churchman, Writer
Quote: 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.
Author: Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist