VIRGINITY

Related Subjects: Chastity, Honor, Maid, Purity, Virtue

1. You see me with child, and you want me a virgin.—CERVANTES, Don Quixote
   

2. Some say no evil thing that walks by night,
   In fog or fire, by lake or moorish fen,
   Blue meagre hag, or stubborn unlaid ghost,
   That breaks his magic chains at curfew time,
   No goblin, or swart faery of the mine,
   Hath hurtful power o'er true virginity.—MILTON, Comus
   

3. Helena: Man is enemy to virginity; how may we barricado it against him?
   Parolles: Keep him out.—SHAKESPEARE, All's Well that Ends Well
   

4. There was never virgin got till virginity was first lost.—SHAKESPEARE, All's Well that Ends Well
   

5. Virginity breeds mites, much like a cheese consumes itself to the very paring, and so dies with feeding its own stomach. Besides, virginity is peevish, proud, idle, made of self-love, which is the most inhibited sin in the canon.—SHAKESPEARE, All's Well that Ends Well
   

6. Young budding virgin, fair and fresh and sweet,
   Whither away, or where is thy abode?
   Happy the parents of so fair a child;
   Happier the man, whom favourable stars
   Allot thee for his lovely bed-fellow.—SHAKESPEARE, The Taming of the Shrew
   

7. Virginity is a life of angels, the enamel of the soul.—JEREMY TAYLOR, Holy Living
   

8. Beerbohm Tree said what we have all wanted to say of the extra-women in nearly every throne-room and ball-room and school-room scene since the theater began. "Ladies," said Tree, peering at them plaintively through his monocle, "just a little more virginity, if you don't mind."—ALEXANDER WOOLLCOTT, Capsule Criticism