Chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition, a greater foe

Chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition, a greater foe to natural temperance even than unintellectual sensuality. – Percy Bysshe Shelley

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Chastity
category

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

Category:
Chastity

These people abstain, it is true: but the bitch Sensuality glares enviously out of all they do. – Friedrich Nietzsche

Category:
Chastity

There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet. – Eric Hoffer

Category:
Chastity

An unattempted lady could not vaunt of her chastity. – Michel de Montaigne

Category:
Chastity

Random Quotes

Golf is a game in which the ball lies poorly and the players well. – Art Rosenbaum

Category:
Golf

Im not a movie star. People know me, but they dont necessarily know what they know me for. I get recognised, but its not like Justin Bieber. Its a nice thing, people are cool. – Harry Connick, Jr.

Category:
cool

I dont understand the Democrats approach to Social Security in this country, and Im not alone. – William Weld

Category:
alone

The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him. – Niccolo Machiavelli

Category:
Intelligence