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I hate hippies and dopeheads. Just hate them. I`m glad we sent the men off to war. They came back with a sense of responsibility and respect. We should have grabbed the women, given them a bath, put a chastity belt on them, and put them in secretary school.

- Ernest Borgnine

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

- Barbara Cartland

It`s a clear statement by the Vatican that gay men are not welcome in seminaries and religious orders, ... In Good Company: The Fast Track from the Corporate World to Poverty, Chastity and Obedience.

- James Martin

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

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

- Thomas Perry

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

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

- Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

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.

- Amanda Diamond

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

- Amy Saelens

When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.

- Andreu Guarneri

It`s a clear statement by the Vatican that gay men are not welcome in seminaries and religious orders, ... In Good Company: The Fast Track from the Corporate World to Poverty, Chastity and Obedience.

- Asmara Jamaleh

Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.

- Anatole France

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

`Tis Chastity, my brother, Chastity: She that has that, is clad in complete steel

- John Milton

It is difficult to believe in a religion that places such a high premium on chastity and virginity.

- Madonna
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Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last, in the ripeness of instinct and discretion, it ca

- George Santayana