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- Rays of male vision seem to have a tickling effect upon virgin faces in rural districts; she brushed hers with her hand, as if Gabriel had been irritating its pink surface by actual touch, and the free air of her previous movements was reduced at the same time to a chastened phase of itself.
- "I do—when I have an opportunity, which latterly has not been often (my mother was a Parisienne)—and there’s a proverb they have, _Qui aime bien chatie bien_—’He chastens who loves well.’
- It is said an eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him with the words, "And this, too, shall pass away." How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!Abraham Lincoln
- "Chastened," Tanner interrupted.Gillian Flynn -- Gone Girl
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