#chastity

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

#austere #between #chastity #christianity #close

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

#compensate #cruel #discretion #display #employ

Secrecy is the chastity of friendship. ↗

— Jeremy Taylor

#friendship #secrecy

Give me chastity and continence, but not yet. ↗

— Saint Augustine

#give #give me #me #yet

A clean heart is a free heart. A free heart can love Christ with an undivided love in chastity, convinced that nothing and nobody will separate it from his love. Purity, chastity, and virginity created a special beauty in Mary that attracted God’s attention. ↗

— Mother Teresa

#clean-heart #purity #beauty

I've never had sex. Never wanted to. Not with a man or a woman or an animal, though my family jokes about it. And I never will. The thought of it disgusts me. ↗

— Marie Phillips

#sex #family

Chastity—the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions, he added parenthetically, out of Remy de Gourmont. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#perversion #sex #authority

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

— Geoffrey Chaucer

#agree #chastity #filth #i #old

Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#most #sexual #unnatural

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

— Saint Augustine

#give #give me #lord #me #oh