chastity quotes

Da mihi castitatem et continentiam, sed noli modo. Grant me chastityand continence, but not yet.

-St Augustine originally Aurelius Augustinus
AD 397  Confessions, bk.8, ch.7 (translated by Henry Chadwick).

The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise isgone! it isgone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.

- Edmund Burke
  Reflections on the Revolution in France.

Then she rode forth, clothed on with chastity.

-Tennyson
  Poems,'Godiva', l.53.