“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
“If you cannot be chaste, be cautious”
Spanish Proverb
“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”
Catullus
“For the godly poet must be chaste himself, but there is no need for his verses to be so.”
“For I / Except you enthrall me, never shall be free, / Nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.”
John Donne
“She / Was married, charming, chaste, and twenty-three.”
Lord Byron
“Be warm, but pure; be amorous, but be chaste.”
