Chastity
The state of being chaste; purity of body; freedom from unlawful sexual intercourse.
Moral purity.
The unmarried life; celibacy.
Chasteness.
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Chastity Quotations
Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
Saint Augustine
Oh Lord, give me chastity, but do not give it yet.
Saint Augustine
Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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
Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.
Aldous Huxley
Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.
George Santayana
An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
Michel de Montaigne
A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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
Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism.
Anton Chekhov
Chastity Translations
chastity in German is Keuschheit
chastity in Spanish is castidad
chastity in Swedish is kyskhet, dygd
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