Bawdry Quotes

#1. Can an author with reason complain that he is cramped and shackled if he is not at liberty to publish blasphemy, bawdry, or sedition?; all of which are equally prohibited in the freest governments, if they are wise and well-regulated ones.

Bill Vaughan

#2. In our fathers' time nothing was read but books of feigned chivalry, wherein a man by reading should be led to none other end, but only to manslaughter and bawdry.

Roger Ascham

#3. It's only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdry that you can get tenderness.

Lawrence Durrell

#4. Woman is the symbol to man of the uncleanness of bodily existence, of which he purifies himself by putting her to noble uses. She thus has for him a double, contradictory significance; she is the subject of his bawdry and the subject of his romance.

Laura Riding

#5. Journalism is a voyeuristic vocation that attracts to its employment many people who are often naturally shy and insatiably curious, and each day they are assigned to view the world with a critical eye and a detached sense of intimacy.

Gay Talese

#6. Only parents and torturers and the janitors of holocausts are asked to stand the sound of so much human grief.

Martin Amis

#7. And how do you know she's the one?" I whisper, wiping the tears spilling down my face. He brings a hand up to my cheek and caresses over it with his thumb. "I know because, when she's not with me, I feel like I lack oxygen, and even when I am with her, I feel like I can't breathe enough.

Claire Contreras

#8. I believe that I must do everything I can do to lessen misery. That's all I can do, and that is something enormous. It is a great power.

Anne Rice

#9. There's nothing like biting off more than you can chew, and then chewing anyway.

Mark Burnett

#10. Proverbs should be sold in pairs, a single one being but a half truth.

William Mathews

#11. Listen to your child enough and you will come to realize that he or she is quite an extraordinary individual. And the more extraordinary you realize your child to be the more you will be willing to listen. And the more you will learn.

M. Scott Peck

#12. Temptations are part of life, part of growing up. We grapple with them often - in some instances for our lifetime - before we come to realize that it is not so much the victory as it is the struggle that is holy.

Joan D. Chittister

#13. Surround yourself with snakes, and they will poison you. Surround yourself with eagles, and you will learn to fly to the heavens.

Mauricio Chaves Mesen

#14. I just feel like, if I drink, I want to drink a case of beer and not two beers. Two beers doesn't do anything for me.

Chris Pratt

#15. The risk of the Holocaust is not that it will be forgotten, but that it will be embalmed and surrounded by monuments and used to absolve all future sins.

Zygmunt Bauman

#16. You have it on your noise, but you still need a glass to see it ... We need others to admit our faults.

Amen Muffler

#17. He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Don Marquis

#18. When I read a book I liked, I would get a pen and one of my father's legal pads and rewrite it from memory as if I had thought of it myself. It was a clear sign that I wanted to be involved in writing, even if it was just pretend at that point.

Jonathan Dee

#19. Celebrity is now so common that its inherent absurdity has rendered it inoffensive

Dean Cavanagh