(37 quotes found)
“Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.”
Anatole France
“Chastity - you can carry it too far”
Mark Twain
“Much of the modern resistance to chastity comes from men's belief that they ''own'' their bodies -- those vast and perilous estates, pulsating with the energy that made the worlds, in which they find themselves without their consent and from which they are ejected at the pleasure of Another!”
C.S. Lewis
“An unattempted woman cannot boast of her chastity”
Michel de Montaigne
“Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.”
Aldous Huxley
“Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity”
Geoffrey Chaucer
“Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism”
Blaise Pascal
“It is difficult to believe in a religion that places such a high premium on chastity and virginity.”
Madonna
“'Tis Chastity, my brother, Chastity: She that has that, is clad in complete steel”
John Milton
“It is amusing that a virtue is made of the vice of chastity; and it's a pretty odd sort of chastity at that, which leads men straight into the sin of Onan, and girls to the waning of their color”
Voltaire