Top 22 Chastity Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Chastity Quotes from famous people such as J. Paul Getty, Anatole France, Anton Chekhov, George Santayana, George Chapman, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

I am neither a homosexual nor a eunuch, nor have I ever

I am neither a homosexual nor a eunuch, nor have I ever taken any vows of chastity.
J. Paul Getty
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
Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.
George Santayana
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
Obedience to the law of chastity will increase our happiness in mortality and make possible our progress in eternity.
David A. Bednar
Reading a novel in which all characters illustrate patience, hard work, chastity, and delayed gratification could be a pretty dull experience.
Thomas Perry
The moral code of Heaven for both men and women is complete chastity before marriage and full fidelity after marriage.
Ezra Taft Benson
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
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.
Safak Pavey
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
A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.
Barbara Cartland
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
An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
Michel de Montaigne
Oh Lord, give me chastity, but do not give it yet.
Saint Augustine
Filth and old age, I’m sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
Geoffrey Chaucer
When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
Tacitus
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
Chastity – the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.
Aldous Huxley
Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
Saint Augustine
We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition.
Alex Comfort