Chastity Quotes - Page 5

• Una monja de la hermandad de invierno no besa más religiosamente; el hielo mismo de la castidad está en ellas.

  William Shakespeare

  Kissing, Winter, Sisterhood

  William Shakespeare (1733). “The works of Shakespeare in seven volumes”, p.238

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• So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours, nobody can say. But to sacrifice a hair of the head of your vision, a shade of its colour, in deference to some Headmaster with a silver pot in his hand or to some professor with a measuring-rod up his sleeve, is the most abject treachery, and the sacrifice of wealth and chastity which used to be said to be the greatest of human disasters, a mere flea-bite in comparison.

  Virginia Woolf

  Writing, Sacrifice, Hair

  Virginia Woolf, Hermione Lee (2000). “A room of one's own and other essays”

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• The missionary is no longer a man, a conscience. He is a corpse, in the hands of a confraternity, without family, without love, without any of the sentiments that are dear to us. Emasculated, in a sense, by his vow of chastity, he offers us the distressing spectacle of a man deformed and impotent or engaged in a stupid and useless struggle with the sacred needs of the flesh, a struggle which, seven times out of ten, leads him to sodomy, the gallows, or prison.

  Paul Gauguin

  Stupid, Struggle, Men

  Paul Gauguin (1985). “The Intimate Journals of Paul Gauguin”, p.93, Routledge

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• Love, which, in concert with Abstinence, established Faith, and which, along with Patience, builds up Chastity, is like the columns that sustain the four corners of a house. For it was that same Love which planted a glorious garden redolent with precious herbs and noble flowers-roses and lilies-which breathed forth a wondrous fragrance, that garden on which the true Solomon was accustomed to feast his eyes.

  Gian Carlo Menotti

  Love, Inspiring, Flower

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• The Church has no double standard of morality. The moral code of heaven for both men and women is complete chastity before marriage and full fidelity after marriage.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Men, Heaven, Church

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). "Las enseñanzas de Ezra Taft Benson", Bookcraft Pubs

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• Discourses on humility are a source of pride in the vain and of humility in the humble. So those on scepticism cause believers to affirm. Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, few doubtingly of scepticism.

  Blaise Pascal

  Humilde, Humildad, Orgullo

  Blaise Pascal (2016). “Pensées”, p.142, Open Road Media

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• No me importa que las mujeres sencillas sean puritanas. Es la única excusa que tienen para ser sencillas.

  Oscar Wilde

  Mind, Excuse, Puritan

  Oscar Wilde (1986). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays”

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• Respectability is joining chastity in the museum of dead issues.

  Mason Cooley

  Issues, Museums, Joining

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• No siempre es por valor o por castidad que los hombres son valientes y las mujeres castas.

  François de La Rochefoucauld

  Men, Brave, Valor

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• Chastity is oftener owing to diffidence and shame, than to fortitude of reason or virtue.

  Norm MacDonald

  Owing, Shame, Fortitude

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• Let us again clothe ourselves with these proved and sterling virtues - honesty, truthfulness, chastity, sobriety, temperance, industry, and thrift; let us discard all covetousness and greed.

  J. Reuben Clark

  Honesty, Sobriety, Greed

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• Lo que consideramos virtud no es a menudo más que un conjunto de ambiciones y actividades diversas que el azar, o nuestra propia astucia, han dispuesto de una determinada manera; y no siempre es por valentía o pureza por lo que los hombres son valientes y las mujeres castas.

  François de La Rochefoucauld

  Courage, Ambition, Men

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• If our elaborate and dominating bodies are given us to be denied at every turn, if our nature is always wrong and wicked, how ineffectual we are; like fishes not meant to swim.

  Cyril Connolly

  Swim, Wicked, Atheism

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• In traditional societies, we have a long legacy of men controlling the body and mind of women. Such societies have valorised motherhood and fabricated concepts like chastity. Women have been the victims of these notions for thousands of years.

  Taslima Nasrin

  Motherhood, Men, Years

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• Chastity is now treated as a sexual problem.

  Mason Cooley

  Problem, Treated

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• If a shameless woman expects to be defiled and then dies of her fierce love because you do not consent, will chastity also be homicide?

  Saint Augustine

  Love Is, Fierce, Shameless

  Saint Augustine (2010). “Treatises on Various Subjects (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 16)”, p.172, CUA Press

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• Chastity is the most unpopular of the Christian virtues. There is no getting away from it; the old Christian rule is, "Either marriage, with completely faithfulness to your partner, or else total abstinence."

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Faithfulness, Virtue

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• [Benjamin Franklin]identified thirteen virtues he wanted to cultivate--temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquility, chastity and humility--and made a chart with those virtues plotted against the days of the week. Each day, Franklin would score himself on whether he practiced those thirteen virtues.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Humility, Order, Justice

  Gretchen Rubin (2009). “The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• Now to understand the significance of chastity within us, we have to know that chastity is the foundation of all dharmas. Unless and until you have sense of chastity you cannot have dharma.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Amor, Sabiduría, Yoga

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• La mirada de un hombre debería ser aún más reverente ante la aparición de una joven doncella que ante la aparición de una estrella. La posibilidad del tacto debería aumentar el respeto. El plumón del melocotón, el polvo de la ciruela, el cristal irradiado de la nieve, el ala de la mariposa empolvada de plumas, son cosas burdas al lado de esa castidad que ni siquiera sabe que es casta. La joven doncella es sólo el destello de un sueño y aún no es estatua. Su alcoba se oculta en las sombras del ideal. El toque indiscreto del ojo profana esta penumbra tenue. Aquí, mirar, es profanar.

  Victor Hugo

  Sueño, Estrellas, Mariposa

  Victor Hugo (1987). "Los Miserables", Signet Classics

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• If we lived in a State where virtue was profitable, common sense would make us good, and greed would make us saintly. And we'd live like animals or angels in the happy land that /needs/ no heroes. But since in fact we see that avarice, anger, envy, pride, sloth, lust and stupidity commonly profit far beyond humility, chastity, fortitude, justice and thought, and have to choose, to be human at all... why then perhaps we /must/ stand fast a little --even at the risk of being heroes.

  Robert Bolt

  Hero, Humility, Angel

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• The civilization of cities is breeding a new race of monks who have none of the original religious drive towards chastity, but are just incapable of facing the responsibilities of marriage.

  Kylie Tennant

  Religious, Responsibility, Race

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• Pues en ese golpe fallas No será alcanzada por la flecha de Cupido. Ella tiene el ingenio de Dian, Y, en fuerte proff de la castidad bien armada, Del débil arco infantil del Amor vive desarmada. No detendrá el asedio de los términos amorosos, Ni aguardará el encuentro de los ojos asaltantes, Ni abrirá su regazo al oro que educa a los santos. Oh, ella es rica en belleza; solo pobre que, cuando muera, muera con ella. Acto 1, Escena 1, líneas 180-197

  William Shakespeare

  Strong, Eye, Arrows

  William Shakespeare (2000). “Romeo and Juliet”, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• The whole idea we have for their chastity is ridiculous. They would have to become numb and invisible to please us. I don't know whether the exploits of Alexander and Caesar really surpass the resolution of a beautiful young woman, bred up in the light and commerce of our society, who still keeps herself whole. There is no doing so hard as not doing.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Beautiful, Ideas, Light

  Michel de Montaigne (1956). "Autobiografía: Comprendiendo la vida del hombre más sabio de su tiempo ..."

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• Hoy en día, por el contrario, el cristianismo se especializa en música ambiental de enfoque suave; sus amenazas del infierno, su exigencia de pobreza y castidad, su doctrina de que sólo unos pocos se salvarán y muchos se condenarán, han sido sustituidas por guitarras rasgueadas y sonrisas acarameladas. Se ha reinventado a sí misma tantas veces, y con una hipocresía tan pasmosa, en aras de conservar su dominio sobre los crédulos, que un monje medieval que despertara hoy, como el Sleeper de Woody Allen, no sería capaz de reconocer la fe que lleva el mismo nombre que la suya.

  A.C. Grayling

  Guitar, Names, Hypocrisy

  "Can an atheist be a fundamentalist?" by A. C. Grayling, www.theguardian.com. May 3, 2006.

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