F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes

Abstinence is many times very helpful to the end of religion.

Because monks come from the midst of purity, they consider as good and pure what does not arouse desire among other people.

I took the vow of celibacy in 1906. I had not shared my thoughts with my wife until then, but only consulted her at the time of making the vow. She had no objection.

Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.

If you would be chaste, you must be temperate.

Celibacy is exhausting.

Chastity is a virtue with some, but with many it is almost a vice.

I'd also gone through an entire year of celibacy based on my feeling that lust was the direct cause of birth which was the direct cause of suffering and death.

Chastity is a difficult long term matter, one must wait patiently for it to bear fruit for the happiness of loving kindness which it must bring. But at the same time chastity is the sure way to happiness.

Harder than training for the Olympics, harder than graduating from college, has been to stay a virgin before marriage.

Nothing so casts down the manly mind from it's height as the fondling of women and those bodily contacts which belong to the married state.

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

Celibacy is not just a matter of not having sex. It is a way of admiring a person for their humanity, maybe even for their beauty.

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.

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

An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.

We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition.

In Ski Party we are reading up on how to have fun without sex. That was the theme of every AIP picture!

Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.

Ladies, just a little more virginity, if you don't mind.

Virginity can be lost by a thought.

When you really see how much God loves you, there's no greater love than that, and I had to match that amount of love He had for me, which is the reason why I decided to take a vow of celibacy.

Men who refrain from sexual acts are frequently stronger, owing to their conservation of energy.

if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.

Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.