I’m as pure as driven slush. Tallulah Bankhead
I can’t stand mindless purity – I have soaked myself in scepticism and am by nature magnetised to bitterness. Brett Whiteley
All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you. Rainer Maria Rilke
Purity is the power to contemplate defilement. Simone Weil
Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings. Salman Rushdie