Perpetual Virginity

Famous quotes containing the words perpetual and/or virginity:

“How feeble is all language to describe the horrors we inflict upon these wretches, whom we mason up in the cells of our prisons, and condemn to perpetual solitude in the very heart of our population.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)

“Your old virginity is like one of our French withered pears: it looks ill, it eats drily.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)