Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc. – G. K. Chesterton
A womans chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats. – Nathaniel Hawthorne
There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet. – Eric Hoffer
Much of the modern resistance to chastity comes from mens 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! – C.S. Lewis
So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity, That, when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lacky her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt. – John Milton
An unattempted lady could not vaunt of her chastity. – Michel de Montaigne
These people abstain, it is true: but the bitch Sensuality glares enviously out of all they do. – Friedrich Nietzsche
How happy is the blameless vestals lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot. – Alexander Pope
Your old virginity is like one of our French withered pears: it looks ill, it eats dryly. – William Shakespeare
Chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition, a greater foe to natural temperance even than unintellectual sensuality. – Percy Bysshe Shelley
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. – Jeremy Taylor
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. – Henry David Thoreau
