“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”
“She / Was married, charming, chaste, and twenty-three.”
Lord Byron
“Be warm, but pure; be amorous, but be chaste.”
“For I / Except you enthrall me, never shall be free, / Nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.”
John Donne
“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
