John Donne Quotes

The great majority of people in England and America are modest, decent and pure-minded and the amount of virgins in the world today is stupendous.

To virginity is awarded the tribute of the highest beauty

Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.

Virginity is not honored simply because it is virginity, but because it is consecrated of God.

Chastity is now treated as a sexual problem.

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

Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.

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

A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.

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

Virginity can be lost by a thought.

If you would be chaste, you must be temperate.

Modesty was designed by Providence as a guard to virtue, and that it might be always at hand it is wrought into the mechanism of the body. It is likewise proportioned to the occasions of life, and strongest in youth when passion is so too.

My main goal is to wait until I'm married to have sex. I would never, personally, be able to (have an abortion), because down the road it would always haunt me.

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.

A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats. You may strip off the outer ones without doing much mischief, perhaps none at all ; but you keep taking off one after another, in expectation of coming to the inner nucleus, including the whole value of the matter. It proves, however, that there is no such nucleus, and that chastity is diffused through the whole series of coats, is lessened with the removal of each, and vanishes with the final one which you supposed would introduce you to the hidden pearl.

Chastity ... has, even now, a religious importance in a woman's life, and has so wrapped itself round with nerves and instincts that to cut it free and bring it to the light of day demands courage of the rarest.

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.

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.

Virtue consisted in avoiding scandal and venereal disease.

Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.

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

Moral character has now some influence in our elections, but not that place which it deserves. The law of public opinion excludes confirmed sots, and persons judicially convicted of high crimes and misdemeanors against the State; but it ought to render the election of all profane swearers, notorious Sabbath breakers, seducers, slanderers, prodigals and riotous persons, as well as the advocates of dueling, impracticable.

The moral character of the Indians was (if I may be allowed the expression) uncontaminated. Their fidelity was perfect, and became proverbial. They were strictly honest; they despised deception and falsehood; and chastity was held in high 'veneration, and a violation of it was considered sacrilege. They were temperate in their desires, moderate in their passions, and candid and honorable in the expression of their sentiments, on every subject of importance

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