“She / Was married, charming, chaste, and twenty-three.”
Lord Byron
“And let those who do not find the means to marry keep chaste until Allah makes them free from want out of His grace. And (as for) those who ask for a writing from among those whom your right hands possess, give them the writing if you know any good in them, and give them of the wealth of Allah which He has given you; and do not compel your slave girls to prostitution, when they desire to keep chaste, in order to seek the frail good of this world's life; and whoever compels them, then surely after their compulsion Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.”
quran
“If you cannot be chaste, be cautious”
Spanish Proverb
“For the godly poet must be chaste himself, but there is no need for his verses to be so.”
Catullus
“So a maiden, while she remains untouched, remains dear to her own; but when she has lost her chaste flower with sullied body, she remains neither lovely to boys nor dear to girls”
“We sit and talk, and kiss away the hours as chastely as the morning dews kiss flowers: I touch her, like my beads, with devout care, and come unto my courtship as my prayer.”
Thomas Randolph
“For I / Except you enthrall me, never shall be free, / Nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.”
John Donne
