Beatrice Wood Quotes

Asceticism and celibacy can conceal many incapacities.

Chastity more rarely follows fear, or a resolution, or a vow, than it is the mere effect of lack of appetite and, sometimes even, of distaste.

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

I know that people can live celibate lives. I did it myself for many years.

The essence of chastity is not the suppression of lust, but the total orientation of one's life towards a goal. Without such a goal, chastity is bound to become ridiculous. Chastity is the sine qua non of lucidity and concentration.

I have never been a celibate. If people believe so, that is their foolishness.

Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.

To me, the most obscene word in our language is celibacy.

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.

A true Brahmachari will not even dream of satisfying the fleshly appetite

In my own life, I don't have intercourse. That is my choice.

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

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.

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.

It’s impossible,” he snapped. “Why?” “Because I’m Sebastian, Lord St. Vincent. I can’t be celibate. Everyone knows that.

I have a purity ring.

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

I have been celibate for about six or seven months, I think. I would rather just make out and kiss someone instead of sex. I'm single. I said I would be single for a year and I am.

I've calmed down already. I don't hook up anymore.

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.

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

Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.

Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.

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