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 taken any vows of chastity.
Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
Reason and justice tell me there’s more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism.
Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.
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.
Obedience to the law of chastity will increase our happiness in mortality and make possible our progress in eternity.
Reading a novel in which all characters illustrate patience, hard work, chastity, and delayed gratification could be a pretty dull experience.
The moral code of Heaven for both men and women is complete chastity before marriage and full fidelity after marriage.
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.
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.
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.
A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.
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.
An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
Oh Lord, give me chastity, but do not give it yet.
Filth and old age, I’m sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
I come from a very long line of very superstitious Romanian women who hold on to their chastity probably way too long.
Chastity – the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.
Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition.