(227 votes)   Much of the modern resistance to chastity comes from men's belief that they ''own'' their bodies -- those vast and perilous estates, pulsating with the energy that made the worlds, in which they find themselves without their consent and from which they are ejected at the pleasure of Another!

C. S. Lewis
1898-1963, British Academic, Writer, Christian Apologist

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(155 votes)   God hath prepared a little coronet or special reward (extraordinary and beside the great crown of all faithful souls) for those who have not defiled themselves with women.

Jeremy Taylor
1613-1667, British Churchman, Writer

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(144 votes)   It is fatally easy for Western folk, who have discarded chastity as a value for themselves, to suppose that it can have no value for anyone else. At the same time as Californians try to re-invent ''celibacy,'' by which they seem to mean perverse restraint, the rest of us call societies which place a high value on chastity ''backward.''

Germaine Greer
1939-, Australian Feminist Writer

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(141 votes)   The generative energy, which, when we are loose, dissipates and makes us unclean, when we are continent invigorates and inspires us. Chastity is the flowering of man; and what are called Genius, Heroism, Holiness, and the like, are but various fruits which succeed it.

Henry David Thoreau
1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist

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(141 votes)   Your old virginity is like one of our French withered pears: it looks ill, it eats dryly.

William Shakespeare
1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

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

Gilbert K. Chesterton
1874-1936, British Author

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(135 votes)   Chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition, a greater foe to natural temperance even than unintellectual sensuality.

Percy Bysshe Shelley
1792-1822, British Poet

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(135 votes)   There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld
1613-1680, French Classical Writer

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(133 votes)   'Tis chastity, my brother, chastity. She that has that is clad in complete steel, and like a quivered nymph with arrows keen may trace huge forests and unharbored heaths, infamous hills and sandy perilous wilds, where through the sacred rays of chastity, no savage fierce, bandit, or mountaineer will dare to soil her virgin purity.

John Milton
1608-1674, British Poet

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(133 votes)   An unattempted lady could not vaunt of her chastity.

Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
1533-1592, French Philosopher, Essayist

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(132 votes)   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
1821-1910, American Founder of the Christian Science Church

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