Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.
Aldous Huxley
We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition.
Alex Comfort
For centuries, divorce in the West was a male tool of control - a legislative chastity belt designed to ensure that a wife had one master, while a husband could enjoy many mistresses. It is as though, having denied women their cake for so long, the makers have no wish to see them enjoy it.
Amanda Foreman
For women, Neo-Confucianism placed extra emphasis on chastity, obedience, and diligence. A good wife should have no desire other than to serve her husband, no ambition other than to produce a son, and no interest beyond subjugating herself to her husband's family - meaning, among other things, she must never remarry if widowed.
Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
Anatole France
Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism.
Anton Chekhov
A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.
Barbara Cartland
Obedience to the law of chastity will increase our happiness in mortality and make possible our progress in eternity.
David A. Bednar
The moral code of Heaven for both men and women is complete chastity before marriage and full fidelity after marriage.
Ezra Taft Benson
Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
Geoffrey Chaucer
Extremes, though contrary, have the like effects. Extreme heat kills, and so extreme cold: extreme love breeds satiety, and so extreme hatred; and too violent rigor tempts chastity, as does too much license.
George Chapman
Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.
George Santayana
Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between the sexes which shocked austere moralists.
Havelock Ellis
I am neither a homosexual nor a eunuch, nor have I ever taken any vows of chastity.
J. Paul Getty
Adam was the image of God, he was man and woman, and yet neither of them before his Eve, but a masculine virgin in peculiar love, full of chastity and purity.
Jakob Bohme
What is discipleship? It is primarily obedience to the Savior. Discipleship includes many things. It is chastity. It is tithing. It is family home evening. It is keeping all the commandments. It is forsaking anything that is not good for us.
James E. Faust
Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.
Jeremy Taylor
I come from a very long line of very superstitious Romanian women who hold on to their chastity probably way too long.
Lisa Kennedy Montgomery
So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public.
Marquis de Sade
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.
An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.
Of all the sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity.
Priority is placed on the chastity of women. You can be corrupt, or a murderer and still hold your head up high on the street without problems, whereas if there are any suspicions of your chastity and moral behaviour as a woman, you get lynched.
Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
Oh Lord, give me chastity, but do not give it yet.
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.
When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
In traditional societies, we have a long legacy of men controlling the body and mind of women. Such societies have valorised motherhood and fabricated concepts like chastity. Women have been the victims of these notions for thousands of years.
Reading a novel in which all characters illustrate patience, hard work, chastity, and delayed gratification could be a pretty dull experience.
