Chaste Quotes

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  • A full belly does not make for a chaste spirit.

    Doe   Spirit   Chaste  
  • What we take for virtue is often but an assemblage of various ambitions and activities that chance, or our own astuteness, have arranged in a certain manner; and it is not always out of courage or purity that men are brave, and women chaste.

    Courage   Ambition   Men  
  • The learned are envied by the foolish; rich men by the poor; chaste women by adulteresses; and beautiful ladies by ugly ones.

    Beautiful   Wisdom   Men  
  • Frequent not the company of immodest persons, especially if they be also impudent, as is generally the case; ...these corrupted souls and infected hearts scarcely speak to any, either of the same or a different sex, without causing them to fall in some degree from purity; they have poison in their eyes and in their breath, like basilisks. On the contrary, keep company with the chaste and virtuous; often meditate upon and read holy things; for the word of God is chaste, and makes those also chaste that delight in it.

    Sex   Fall   Eye  
  • In the darkest hour through which a human soul can pass, whatever else is doubtful, this at least is certain. If there be no God and no future state, yet even then it is better to be generous than selfish, better to be chaste than licentious, better to be true than false, better to be brave than to be a coward.

    Selfish   Brave   Soul  
    Frederick William Robertson (1850). “An address delivered to the members of the Working Man's Institute, at the Town Hall, Brighton, on Thursday, April 18, 1850, on the question of the introduction of sceptical publications into the library”, p.13
  • The chaste mind, like a polished plane, may admit foul thoughts, without receiving their tincture.

    Mind   Receiving   May  
    Laurence Sterne (1805). “The Works of Laurence Sterne, A. M.: A sentimental journey through France and Italy. The Koran: or, The life, character and sentiments of Tria Juncta in Uno. A political romance”, p.333
  • The moon of Rome, chaste as the icicle that's curded by the frost from purest snow.

    Moon   Rome   Snow  
    William Shakespeare (1803). “The Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.229
  • Let your eye be chaste, your hand faithful, your tongue truthful and your heart enlightened.

    Heart   Eye   Hands  
  • The householder must always please his wife with money, clothes, love and faith and never do anything to disturb her. That man who has succeeded in getting the love of a chaste wife has succeeded in his religion and has all the virtues.

    Men   Clothes   Wife  
    Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Karma Yoga: The Yoga of Action”, p.15, Advaita Ashrama
  • Early, bright, transient, chaste as morning dew, She sparkled, was exhaled, and went to heaven.

    Morning   Heaven   Dew  
    Edward Young (1866). “The complete poetical works of Edward Young. With life”, p.73
  • Tell me who is able to keep his bed chaste, or which goddess is able to live with one god alone?

    Bed   Able   Goddess  
  • Maid of the luminous grey-eyes, Mistress of honey and marble implacable white thighs and Goddess, chaste daughter of Zeus.

    Beauty   Daughter   Eye  
    Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.291, New Directions Publishing
  • Poesy is a beauteous damsel, chaste, honourable, discreet, witty, retired, and who keeps herself within the limits of propriety. She is a friend of solitude; fountains entertain her, meadows console her, woods free her from ennui, flowers delight her; in short, she gives pleasure and instruction to all with whom she communicates.

    Witty   Flower   Giving  
  • No man of honor, as the word is usually understood, did ever pretend that his honor obliged him to be chaste or temperate, to pay his creditors, to be useful to his country, to do good to mankind, to endeavor to be wise or learned, to regard his word, his promise, or his oath.

    Wise   Country   Men  
    Jonathan Swift, Thomas Roscoe (1859). “The works of Jonathan Swift, D.D.: with copious notes and additions and a memoir of the author”, p.149
  • Clio may be the most austere and chaste of the Muses, but she has been known to come down informally from Mount Helicon in a mood so raffish that there are those who claim to have seen her with her slip showing.

    History   May   Muse  
    Willis Thornton (1992). “History: Facts and Fable”, Dorset Pr
  • The most chaste woman may be the most voluptuous, if she truly loves.

  • Nor will I then thy modest grace forget, Chaste Snow-drop, venturous harbinger of Spring, And pensive monitor of fleeting years!

    Spring   Years   Snow  
    William Wordsworth (1847). “The Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.206
  • One was kind, out of a bounty that could hardly be exhausted, to old governesses and gardeners, who could be relied upon to give thanks with proper abjection; one performed public duties, for which one was paid in full by deference; one was chaste, refusing to run away from one's husband with other men who for the most part did not ask one to do so, and who in any case had nothing better to offer than one's own home. Knowing no difficulties one was without fortitude; knowing no criteria but one's own achievements one was without taste.

    Running   Husband   Home  
    Rebecca West (2010). “The Thinking Reed”, p.149, Open Road Media
  • I should like, if I could, to leave a humble gift -- a bit of chaste prose that had caught up some noble moods.

    Humble   Noble   Mood  
    Max Ehrmann (2003). “Desiderata: Words for Life”, p.45, Scholastic Inc.
  • If she be not honest, chaste, and true, there's no man happy.

    Men   Honest   Wedlock  
    William Shakespeare (1996). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare”, p.846, Wordsworth Editions
  • I would not like to see a person who is sober, moderate, chaste and just say that there is no God. They would speak disinterestedly at least, but such a person is not to be found.

    God   Sober   Speak  
  • So a maiden, whilst she remains untouched, so long is she dear to her own; when she has lost her chaste flower with sullied body, she remains neither lovely to boys nor dear to girls.

    Girl   Flower   Boys  
    "Delphi Complete Works of Catullus".
  • For the godly poet must be chaste himself, but there is no need for his verses to be so.

    Godly   Needs   Poet  
  • Avoid idleness, and fill up all the spaces of thy time with severe and useful employment; for lust easily creeps in at those emptinesses where the soul is unemployed and the body is at ease; for no easy, healthful, idle person was ever chaste if he could be tempted; but of all employments, bodily labor is the most useful, and of the greatest benefit for driving away the Devil.

    Space   Soul   Lust  
  • Make me chaste and To what excesses will men not go for the sake of a religion in which they believe so little and which they practice so imperfectly!

    God   Believe   Men  
  • We believe in being honest, true, chaste, benevolent and in doing good to all men; indeed we may say that we follow the admonition of Paul - We believe all things, we hope all things, we have endured many things and hope to be able to endure all things. If there is anything virtuous, lovely, or of good report or praiseworthy, we seek after these things.

    Believe   Men   Lovely  
  • If thou dost marry, I'll give thee this plague for thy dowry: be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny.

    Calumny Is   Ice   Snow  
    William Shakespeare (1823). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: From the Text of Johnson, Stevens, and Reed; with Glossarial Notes, His Life, and a Critique on His Genius & Writings”, p.920
  • Not beauty, no, but virtue rais'd my fires, whose sacred flame did cherish chaste desires.

    Fire   Flames   Desire  
    William Alexander, “Sonet 1”
  • A visit to New Hampshire supplies the most resources to a traveler, and confers the most benefit on the mind and taste, when it lifts him above mere appetite for wildness, ruggedness, and the feeling of mass and precipitous elevation, into a perception and love of the refined grandeur, the chaste sublimity, the airy majesty overlaid with tender and polished bloom, in which the landscape splendor of a noble mountain lies.

    Lying   Feelings   Mind  
    Thomas Starr King (1876). “The White Hills: Their Legends, Landscape, and Poetry”, p.6
  • As chaste as unsunned snow.

    Love   Love You   Snow  
    'Cymbeline' (1609-10) act 2, sc. 5, l. 12
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