Elizabeth I
Queen
"Chastity is the ermine of woman's soul."
Chastity quotes
Chastity
39 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Mark Twain
Writer, Humorist
"Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them."
Woody Allen
Director, Actor, Writer
"Chastity is curable, if detected early."
Lord Byron
Poet, Novelist
"Be warm, be pure, be amorous, but be chaste."
George Santayana
Philosopher, Poet
"Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect..."
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"Chastity is the most unpopular of the Christian virtues."
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"Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions."
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"It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife."
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"To the pure all things are pure!"
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"Of chastity, the ornaments are chaste."
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"As chaste as is the bud ere it be blown."
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"Chastity, once lost, cannot be recalled; it goes only once."
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"Chastity - you can carry it too far."
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"The supreme sway of chastity over the senses makes her queenly."
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"An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity."
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"Simplified spelling is all right, but, like chastity, you can carry it too far."
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"Da mihi castitatem et continentiam, sed noli modo (Give me chastity and continence, but not just yet)!"
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"Chastity is more a state of mind than of anatomy."
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"If you would be chaste, you must be temperate."
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"A lady could not boast of her chastity who was never tempted."
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