Perpetual Virginity

Famous quotes containing the words perpetual and/or virginity:

“Who shall describe the inexpressable tenderness and immortal life of the grim forest, where Nature, though it be midwinter, is ever in her spring, where the moss-grown and decaying trees are not old, but seem to enjoy a perpetual youth.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

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