chaste quotes

Be warm, but pure; be amorous, but be chaste.

-Rochdale
 English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, l.306.

Take me toYou, imprison me, for I, Except You enthrall me, never shall be free, Nor ever chaste, except You ravish me.

-Donne,John
c.1610^1615  Holy Sonnets, no.14.

   Alas, it doesindeed seema monstrousthing, but afterall, what is chaste in Constantinople may have the aspect of lewdness in Liverpool, and what in Liverpool may pass for virtueinConstantinopleisfrequently regardedasvice.

-Ford, Ford Madox originally Ford Hermann Hueffer
  Letter to  John Lane,17 Dec.

My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the obscurity of a learned language.

-Gibbon, Edward
Memoirs of My Life (published1796), ch.8.

Chaste to her husband, frank to all beside, A teeming mistress, but a barren bride.

-Pope, Alexander
  Epistles to Several Persons,'To a Lady', l.71^2.

Casta Diva. Chaste goddess.

-Romani, Felice
  Norma's aria. Norma, act1 (music by Bellini, published 1832).

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