(106 quotes found)
“Ladies, just a little more virginity, if you don't mind.”
Herbert Beerbohm Tree
“Your old virginity is like one of our French withered pears: it looks ill, it eats dryly.”
William Shakespeare
“The gentle, empty, haunting faces of the young prostitutes, in virginal white and vicarage embroidery.”
James Morris
“Go up into Gilead, and take balm, O virgin, the daughter of Egypt: in vain shalt thou use many medicines; for thou shalt not be cured.”
Bible
“I call not that virginity a virtue, which resideth only in the bodies integrity; much less if it be with a purpose of perpetually keeping it: for then it is a most inhumane vice. - But I call that Virginity a virtue which is willing and desirous to yield itself upon honest and lawful terms, when just reason requireth; and until then, is kept with a modest chastity of body and mind.”
John Donne
“So often is the virgin sheet of paper more real than what one has to say, and so often one regrets having marred it.”
Harold Acton
“I dress sexily - but not in an obvious way. Sexy in a virginal way.”
Victoria Beckham
“Where does virgin wool come from? The sheep that runs the fastest.”
Harry F. Banks
“Virginity is the ideal of those who want to deflower”
Karl Kraus
“Every harlot was a virgin once.”
William Blake