It is not politic in the commonwealth of nature to preserve virginity. Loss of virginity is rational increase, and there was never virgin got till virginity was first lost. That you were made of is metal to make virgins. Virginity, by being once lost, may be ten times found: by being ever kept, it is ever lost. ’Tis too cold a companion: away with ’t!
William Shakespeare
Related There was never virgin got till virginity was first lost WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Virginity can be lost by a thought. ST. JEROME An opportunity is like your virginity, once you've lost it, it's gone… KLEINJAN REDELINGHUYS He that hangs himself is a virgin: virginity murders itself, and should be buried in highways, out o... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I lost my virginity when I was 14. And I haven't been able to find it. DAVID DUCHOVNY She was a natural in being careless, haggard, even dirty. that made her look adventurous, flirtatiou... APURVA SHARMA It's kind of like virginity, ... It is hard to get back. JOHN ZOGBY Every government has lost its virginity in this area (and) I am sure that it will come up in convers... GEORGE TROUP On the day he had colonic irrigation: 'I feel I lost my virginity that day in so many ways. BEN AFFLECK Security is like virginity: you're either a virgin or you're not. You either have security o... LENNART MERI Virginity is the ideal of those who want to deflower. KARL KRAUS Virginity is the ideal of those who want to deflower KARL KRAUS It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue. VOLTAIRE It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue. VOLTAIRE I call not that virginity a virtue, which resideth only in the bodies integrity; much less if it be ... JOHN DONNE It gets worse. Josh tell her that he loves her. She says it back. He touches her. She touches him ba... STEPHANIE PERKINS Modesty is the chastity of merit, the virginity of noble souls. MADAME DE GIRARDIN Mourning is like virginity. You should give it to the one who deserves it most. ELIF SHAFAK Some neglect their virginity and are made to pay dearly for it. SUNDAY ADELAJA Young people are careless of their virginity; one day they may have it and the next not. SYLVIA TOWNSEND WARNER if you nail to a piece of wood you leave a scar on it, but when you nail a virgin you are taking her... LAURE96 Okay. Stop. All of you. This gossipfest about my virginity is not something I want to continue. JENNIFER L. ARMENTROUT Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity. GEORGE CARLIN Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity GEORGE CARLIN It is difficult to believe in a religion that places such a high premium on chastity and virginity. MADONNA The text loses its virginity simply by being staged: it's no longer the abstract ideal version; ... TOM STOPPARD Aging destroys the virginity of our humanity RAYMOND OBENG Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is s... SAINT AUGUSTINE Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is s... SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is s... AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Fighting for peace is like having sex for virginity. ANONYMOUS It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not... VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not... VOLTAIRE It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not... VOLTAIRE Your old virginity is like one of our French withered pears: it looks ill, it eats dryly. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Tis a commodity that will lose the gloss with lying; the longer kept, the less worth: off with ’t,... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The great majority of people in England and America are modest, decent and pure-minded and the amo... BARBARA CARTLAND An isolated outbreak of virginity is a rash on the face of society. It arouses only pity from the m... CHARLOTTE BINGHAM Life's Irony; A physical virgin may have been many times mentally disvirgined. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) But if this thing be true, and the tokens of virginity be not found for the damsel: / Then they shal... BIBLE I’ve remained a virgin for you. GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ I'll be your number one with a bullet. PETE WENTZ I think he seriously believes that deflowering an angel could mean an eternity in fiery hell. CYNTHIA HAND It is what it is, it is what you make it. JAMES DURBIN I love my virginity to the apocalypse. SCOTT WESTERFELD Ladies, just a little more virginity, if you don't mind. HERBERT BEERBOHM TREE If every cigarette you smoke takes seven minutes off of your life, every game of Dungeons & Drag... MARILYN MANSON Surprise is like virginity. You only get the one chance at using it, and that normally turns out a c... JOE ABERCROMBIE I didn't lose my virginity until I was 18 The first time was a nightmare. Who shows you how to use a... ADAM ANT What does my smile look like now? Vivi wondered. Can you reclaim that free-girl smile, or is it like... REBECCA WELLS For men to be virgins, we think it's negative. We think that there's something wrong with them. At t... JOYCE BROTHERS Love means Let Our Virginity End MITEB KHANTASH ALQARNI Then there was a maiden speech, so inaudible, that it was doubted whether, after all, the young orat... BENJAMIN DISRAELI Now I need to speak directly and with compassion to those who have already pushed open the door of p... JAMES C. DOBSON I always thought of losing my virginity as a career move. MADONNA He’d never be able to touch her, and as passionate as she was, she would eventually need a man who... GENA SHOWALTER Ladies, just a little more virginity, if you don't mind. HERBERT BEERBOHM TREE He had preserved the best part of her and made it his own: the principle of her scent. PATRICK SüSKIND Several hard-core Star Wars fans who had tickets for the first showing actually said that when the m... CONAN O'BRIEN An isolated outbreak of virginity is a rash on the face of society. It arouses only pity from the ma... CHARLOTTE BINGHAM Italy, like areas of her childhood, is a part of her world she has always kept secret from her husba... GLENN HAYBITTLE The desirable virgin is sexy but not sexual. She's young, white, and skinny. She's a cheerleader, a ... JESSICA VALENTI I was pure, before you defiled me, and don't you forget it. As though the concept of purity is anyth... THOMM QUACKENBUSH O.K, but wash it first.... JOHN LEWINGTON His anger was still there, and he used it to break into her. He liked the way her eyes widened in al... RUPERT THOMSON Finally the homeless eel marked its territory, I suppose, and the Doctor lay heavily upon me, moist ... ARTHUR GOLDEN So I thought I’d feel different afterward, after the visible neon sign proclaiming 'virgin' had bl... MIKE MULLIN I know this sounds incredibly lame, but I don't want losing my virginity to feel like I'm ... SONYA SONES Another abstinence book claims, "A woman is far more attracted by a man's personality, while a man i... JESSICA VALENTI Idolizing virginity as a stand-in for women's morality means that nothing else matters- not what we ... JESSICA VALENTI I think virginity is fine, just as I think having sex is fine. I don't really care what women do sex... JESSICA VALENTI ...idea at play here is that of “morality.” When young women are taught about morality, there’... JESSICA VALENTI Virginity is such a personal thing. You can't judge anyone on it. A lot of young women feel they wan... JOYCE BROTHERS He is not my focus," Diana told writer Rodney Tyler of Arne. "He’s my husband, my companion, my lo... J. RANDY TARABORRELLI I’ve always found the idea of 'saving' your virginity intriguing: it’s not as if we’re packing... JESSICA VALENTI According to the virginity movement, men have no self-control when it comes to anything sexual. JESSICA VALENTI Honesty. Sobriety. My virginity. No way to regain the first two, I al... ELLEN HOPKINS There is fear in being lost, but if the place being lost is beautiful, then there is fear in being f... MEHMET MURAT ILDAN Several hard-core Star Wars fans who had tickets for the first showing actually said that when the m... CONAN O'BRIEN Girls “going wild” aren’t damaging a generation of women, the myth of sexual purity is. The li... JESSICA VALENTI To stand on the brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli... ASK AND IT IS GIVEN It is a lie. ARTHUR MILLER The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity. AMBROSE BIERCE Smartass Disciple: Master, why there was no second chance in garden of eden? Master of Stupidit... TOBA BETA A man may indeed be an honest man; but the folly of sacrifice, of virginity, of devotedness, of mart... EMILE BOUGAUD Up until then it had only been himself. Up to then it had been a private wrestle between him and him... JAMES JONES Nafsha is so concerned with my virginity. I am beginning to think she would wed me herself. Alas, th... LIBBIE HAWKER Virginity is such a personal thing. You can't judge anyone on it. A lot of young women feel they... JOYCE BROTHERS The sidesaddle was designed to protect a maiden's virginity, while risking the maiden's neck. Rather... SHERI S. TEPPER People lost their virginity to this music, got high for the first time to this music. I've had peopl... JOHN DENSMORE People lost their virginity to this music, got high for the first time to this music, ... I've had p... JOHN DENSMORE What if you get a virgin (or what you call – pure) girl, and she disrespects you, has affairs outs... MEHEK BASSI Assured that LIFE in shape is round, ball-like as it procures its sound, went lost, but then was fou... YTHAM REIJAN ROSELITTLE COOGEIL He stops walking and grasps both of my hands to stop me. He narrows his eyes at me. "You’ve never ... ISABELLE JOSHUA Its not what your are, its what you dont become that hurts. OSCAR LEVANT I have nothing to give anyone, really. It’s the one gift I can give that has any kind of value. It... FISHER AMELIE While boys are taught that the things that make them men--good men--are universally accepted ethical... JESSICA VALENTI What’s the difference between venerating women for being fuckable and putting them on a purity ped... JESSICA VALENTI Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one. SOURCE UNKNOWN Being lost isn't the same as being nowhere. Being lost is worse because there's the false hope that ... PAUL TREMBLAY
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I come t... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Yet the first bringer of unwelcome news
Hath but a losing office, and his tongue
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It is too full o' th' milk of human kindness
To catch the nearest wa... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Have you the heart? When your head did but ache,
I knit my handkercher about your brows--
The... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A little more than kin, and less than kind! WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O! beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock The meat it feeds on. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE But jealous souls will not be answered so;
They are not ever jealous for the cause,
But jealou... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O, beware, my lord, of jealousy!
It is the green-eyed monster, which doth mock
The meat it fee... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I do beseech you--
Though I perchance am vicious in my guess
(As I confess it is my nature's p... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that
supplants us all in the long run. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If I shall be condemned
Upon surmises, all proofs sleeping else
But what your jealousies awake... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Trifles light as air
Are to the jealous confirmations strong
As proofs of holy writ. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 'Tis mad idolatry To make the service greater than the god. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We defy augury. There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'Tis not to com... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE My plenteous joys,
Wanton in fullness, seek to hide themselves
In drops of sorrow. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE For bonny sweet Robin is all my joy. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Through tattered clothes, small vices do appear. Robes and furred gowns hide all. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel ... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; ... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Yet 'tis greater skill
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The very devils cannot pla... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE How use doth breed a habit in a man!
This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods,
I better brook t... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The miserable have no other medicine But only hope. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O world, world! thus is the poor agent despised. O traitors and bawds, how earnestly are you set a-w... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE