(132 quotes found)
“The undressed is vulgar - the nude is pure”
Robert Green Ingersoll
“True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power.”
Milan Kundera
“If a man's mind becomes pure, his surroundings will also become pure”
Buddha
“The plastic virtues: purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection.”
Guillaume Apollinaire
“Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.”
David Hare
“Without modesty, woman is devoid of beauty and culture. Humility, purity of thought and manners, meekness, surrender to high ideals, sensitivity, sweetness of temper -the peculiar blend of all these qualities is modesty. It is the most invaluable of all jewels for women.”
Sri Sathya Sai Baba
“We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.”
“His purity was too great, his aspiration too high for this poor, miserable world! His great soul is now only enjoying that for which it was worthy!”
Queen Victoria
“I am a journalist and, under the modern journalist's code of Olympian objectivity (and total purity of motive), I am absolved of responsibility. We journalists don't have to step on roaches. All we have to do is turn on the kitchen light and watch the critters scurry.”
P. J. O'Rourke
“Purity is a negative state and therefore contrary to nature.”
William Faulkner
