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

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

An unattempted lady could not vaunt of her chastity.
Michel de Montaigne

An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
Michel de Montaigne

Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.
Aldous Huxley

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

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.
Mary Baker Eddy

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.
George Chapman

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

Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
Saint Augustine

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

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.
Havelock Ellis

Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
Anatole France

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

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

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

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

Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.
Jeremy Taylor

Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.
George Santayana

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.
Marquis de Sade