Make me chaste and continent, but not just yet. Saint Augustine
Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest. Anatole France
Chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition, a greater foe to natural temperance even than unintellectual sensuality; it strikes at the root of all domestic happiness, and consigns more than half of the human race to misery. Percy Bysshe Shelley
Reason and justice tell me there’s more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism. Anton Chekhov
Celibacy is the worst form of self-abuse. Peter de Vries
It is difficult to believe in a religion that places such a high premium on chastity and virginity. Madonna
A woman’s chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats. Nathaniel Hawthorne