Pastoral Resources

Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.

Oh Lord, give me chastity, but do not give it yet.

The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.

A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.

Extremes, though contrary, have the like effects. Extreme heat kills, and so extreme cold: extreme love breeds satiety, and so extreme hatred; and too violent rigor tempts chastity, as does too much license.

Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.

Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism.

Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.

We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition.

Chastity is the cement of civilization and progress. Without it there is no stability in society, and without it one cannot attain the Science of Life.

In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between the sexes which shocked austere moralists.

Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.

I am neither a homosexual nor a eunuch, nor have I ever taken any vows of chastity.

Of all the sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity.

A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.

Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.

An unattempted lady could not vaunt of her chastity.

An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.

Reading a novel in which all characters illustrate patience, hard work, chastity, and delayed gratification could be a pretty dull experience.

So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public.