(15 quotes found)
“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”
“Be warm, but pure; be amorous, but be chaste.”
Lord Byron
“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
“She / Was married, charming, chaste, and twenty-three.”
“Lord, Make me chaste, but not yet”
St. Augustine
“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.”
Jean de la Bruyere
“Meeting the True Guru, one becomes truthful, chaste and pure. Climbing up the steps of the Guru's Path, one becomes the highest of the high.”
Sri Guru Granth Sahib
