As chaste as unsunn'd snow. [ William Shakespeare ]

Chastity is the seal of grace. [ Lady Huntington ]

Modesty and chastity are twins. [ Mrs. Jameson ]

To the pure all things are pure. [ Shelley ]

Temperance is the nurse of chastity. [ Wycherley ]

Secrecy is the chastity of friendship. [ Jeremy Taylor ]

Of chastity, the ornaments are chaste. [ William Shakespeare ]

Chastity is the ermine of woman's soul. [ Queen Elizabeth ]

Whiter than new snow on a raven's back. [ William Shakespeare ]

As chaste as is the bud ere it be blown. [ William Shakespeare ]

Chastity, like piety, is a uniform grace. [ Richardson ]

She that has that is clad in complete steel. [ Milton ]

So dear to heaven is saintly chastity,
That, when a soul is found sincerely so,
A thousand liveried angels lackey her,
Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt. [ Milton ]

When love once pleads admission to our hearts,
In spite of all the virtue we can boast,
The woman that deliberates is lost. [ Addison ]

The soul whose bosom lust did never touch
Is God's fair bride, and maidens' souls are such. [ Decker ]

Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity. [ Tertullian ]

That chastity of honor which felt a stain like a wound. [ Burke ]

Idleness and chastity cannot set their horses together. [ Proverb ]

Chastity, lost once, cannot be recalled; it goes only once. [ Ovid ]

As pure as a pearl, And as perfect; a noble and innocent girl. [ Lord Lytton ]

Modesty is the chastity of merit, the virginity of noble souls. [ E. de Girardin ]

The supreme sway of chastity over the senses makes her queenly. [ Joubert ]

A woman's character is as delicate as her eye; it can bear no flaw. [ G. A. Sala ]

Chastity is like an icicle; if it once melts, that's the last of it. [ Proverb ]

For violets plucked, the sweetest showers will never make grow again. [ Byron ]

The most chaste woman may be the most voluptuous, if she truly loves. [ Mirabeau ]

A man defines his standing at the court of chastity by his views of women. [ Alcott ]

Vanity bids all her sons be brave, and all her daughters chaste and courteous. [ Sterne ]

Liberty, like chastity, once lost, can never be regained in its original purity. [ H. W. Shaw ]

A blush is the sign which Nature hangs out to show where chastity and honor dwell. [ Gotthold ]

Chastity is the band that holds together the sheaf of all holy affections and duties. [ Vinet ]

Eyes not down-dropped nor overbright, but fed with the clear-pointed flame of chastity. [ Alfred Tennyson ]

The ear is the last resort of chastity: after it is expelled from the heart, it takes refuge there. [ Ritif de la Bretonne ]

Casuists who made absolute chastity a virtue, have produced but false appearances in a hypocritical society. [ Mme. Louise Colet ]

There needs not strength to he added to inviolate chastity; the excellency of the mind makes the body impregnable. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

Science confounds everything; it gives to the flowers an animal appetite, and takes away from even the plants their chastity. [ Joubert ]

That chastity of look which seems to hang a veil of purest light over all her beauties, and by forbidding most inflames desire. [ Young ]

Not the mountain ice, congealed to crystals, is so frosty chaste as thy victorious soul, which conquers man, and man's proud tyrant, passion. [ Dryden ]

The soul that is the abode of chastity acquires an energy which enables her to surmount with ease the obstacles that lie along the path of duty. [ Joubert ]

A beautiful and chaste woman is the perfect workmanship of God, and the true glory of angels, the rare miracle of earth, and the sole wonder of the world. [ Hermes ]

Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity, insert into their ears the word of God, tie the yoke of Christ around their necks, and adorn their whole persons with the silk of sanctity and the damask of devotion. [ Tertullian ]

Consider what importance to society the chastity of women is. Upon that all the property in the world depends. We hang a thief for stealing a sheep; but the unchastity of a woman transfers sheep and farm and all from the right owner. [ Dr. Johnson ]

Nothing makes a woman more esteemed by the opposite sex than chastity; whether it be that we always prize those most who are hardest to come at, or that nothing besides chastity, with its collateral attendants, truth, fidelity, and constancy, gives the man a property in the person he loves, and consequently endears her to him above all things. [ Addison ]

In Goethe's drama, Iphigenia defends her chastity, ascribing her firmness to the gods. No god hath said this: thine own heart hath spoken, answered Thoas, the king. They only speak to us through our heart, she replies. Have not I the right to hear them too? he rejoins. Thy storm of passion drowns the gentle whisper, adds the maiden, and closes all debate. [ Bartol ]

A pure mind in a chaste body is the mother of wisdom and deliberation, sober counsels and ingenuous actions, open deportment and sweet carriage, sincere principles and unprejudicate understanding, love of God and selfdenial, peace and confidence, holy prayers and spiritual comfort, and a pleasure of spirit infinitely greater than the sottish pleasure of unchastity. [ Jeremy Taylor ]