Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
Quotations by Gilbert K. Chesterton

Other quotes and quotations :

• A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice. Gilbert K. Chesterton
• My country wrong or right, is like saying my mother, drunk or sober. Gilbert K. Chesterton
• A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things. Gilbert K. Chesterton
• Of all the sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity. Remy De Gourmont
• Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all. Gilbert K. Chesterton
• A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying. Gilbert K. Chesterton
• Angels fly because they take themselves lightly. Gilbert K. Chesterton
• I believe in getting into hot water. I think it keeps you clean. Gilbert K. Chesterton
• It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem. Gilbert K. Chesterton
• Marriage is an adventure, like going to war. Gilbert K. Chesterton