Top 100 Indecent Quotes
#1. He dressed quickly in silence, refusing her tissues. He shakily pulled a wad of uncounted notes from his wallet, abandoned them in the no man's land between, and escaped in an indecent haste, leaving the shameful tableau in his wake.
Darren White
#2. She can't wear that dress! It's indecent. Her ass is hangin' out."
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"Son, take my advice, you gotta get this girl in hand. You can't let her run around with her ass hangin' out. You allow it once, she'll do it again. Trust me, I know.
Kristen Ashley
#3. With my sometimes blunt indecent vocabulary & very vivid imagination, I wonder if I should be writing "other" kinds of content.
April Mae Monterrosa
#4. These funerals always appear to me the more indecent in a populous city, from the total indifference of the beholders, and the perfect unconcern with which they are beheld.
Karl Philipp Moritz
#5. Open, the eyes of the dead are a travesty, a parody, make a fool of the deceased. Open, the eyes of the dead perform that most indecent subtraction, show the person without his life.
Glen Duncan
#6. You always feel quite vulnerable when you're naked on a set. You feel quite silly, actually. And with the green screen around you, it's not that sexy. But, it looks stunning. It's art. It's not vulgar. It's not indecent. It's not realistic. It's beautiful, I think.
Eva Green
#7. Her problem came in the shape of a man with blue eyes, blond stubble on his jaw, and a body made for indecent positions.
Robin Bielman
#8. Decent folk had to let indecent folk do their thing; that was the paradox of decency.
Piers Anthony
#10. Wars, and hence the memories of wars, are owned by the male species. And facism is a decidely male property, whether you were for or against it. Besides, women have no past, or aren't supposed to have one. A man can have an interesting past, a woman only indecent.
Ruth Kluger
#12. Th-that would be indecent." "I'm an indecent fellow," he murmured in my ear, even as his hand stole down to cup me through my trousers. "And you like it.
Jordan L. Hawk
#13. In the very essence of poetry there is something indecent; A thing brought forth that we didn't know we had in us, So we blink our eyes, as if a tiger had sprung out And stood in the light, licking its tail.
Czeslaw Milosz
#14. I want to know without words. I want to fall so violently that I risk breaking into a million pieces. I want to love so desperately it's indecent. I want it to be wild and fated and forever. A no-choice connection.
Tia Williams
#15. There is silence and then the familiar smack of Beatrice Muriel's palm against her forehead. "A love marriage," she says. In her opinion, love marriages border on the indecent. They signify a breakdown of propriety, a giving in to the base instincts exhibited by the lower castes and foreigners.
Nayomi Munaweera
#16. I never play cricket. It requires one to assume such indecent postures.
Oscar Wilde
#17. Harry did not usually lie in bed reading his textbooks; that sort of behavior, as Ron rightly said, was indecent in anybody except Hermione, who was simply weird that way.
J.K. Rowling
#18. Neighbors are the most indecent sort of folk around. Nothing but voyeurs and gossipers. As a community we would be much better off without them.
Bauvard
#19. Our age knows better ... What was formerly merely sickly now becomes indecent - it is indecent to be a Christian today.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#20. Nothing is so indecent that it cannot be said to another person if the proper words are used to convey it.
Giovanni Boccaccio
#21. You meet saints everywhere. They can be anywhere. They are people behaving decently in an indecent society.
Kurt Vonnegut
#22. Our cautious ancestors, when yawning, blocked the way to the entrance of evil spirits by putting their hands before their mouths. We find a reason for the gesture in the delicacy of manner which forbids an indecent exposure.
George Herbert Mead
#23. It is no longer the sexual which is indecent, it is the sentimental.
Roland Barthes
#24. My greed for agonies has made me die so many times that it strikes me as indecent to keep on abusing a corpse from which I can get nothing more.
Emil M. Cioran
#25. I guess if life were fair, people who led decent lives would be rewarded, and people who led indecent lives would not be rewarded.
Robert Boswell
#26. Congress has repeatedly passed laws and otherwise raised a ruckus about indecent language on the broadcast airwaves used for radio and television.
Reed Hundt
#27. The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.
D.H. Lawrence
#29. Great writers are indecent people they live unfairly saving the best part for paper. good human beings save the world so that bastards like me can keep creating art, become immortal. if you read this after I am dead it means I made it.
Charles Bukowski
#30. Ten years before its time, a fashion is indecent; ten years after, it is hideous; but a century after, it is romantic.
James Laver
#31. My brothers and sister and I were brought up in an atmosphere which I would describe as 'Puritan decadence'. Puritanism names the behaviour which is condemned; Puritan decadence regards the name itself as indecent, and pretends that the object behind that name does not exist until it is named.
Stephen Spender
#32. Nine-tenths of the appeal of pornography is due to the indecent feelings concerning sex which moralists inculcate in the young; the other tenth is physiological, and will occur in one way or another whatever the state of the law may be.
Bertrand Russell
#33. Jeremiah is a most melancholy prophet. He wails from beginning to end; he is often childish, is rarely indecent, and although it may be blasphemy to say so, he and his 'Lamentations' are really not worth reading.
Annie Besant
#34. But I replied that what made being alive almost worthwhile for me, besides music, was all the saints I met, who could be anywhere. By saints I meant people who behaved decently in a strikingly indecent society.
Kurt Vonnegut
#36. Many people use the words 'death defying' or 'death wishing' when they talk about wire-walking. Many people have asked me: 'So do you have a death wish?' After doing a beautiful walk, I feel like punching them in the nose. It's indecent. I have a life wish.
Philippe Petit
#37. Dagny's bearing seemed almost indecent, because this was the way a woman would have faced a ballroom centuries ago, when the act of displaying one's half-naked body for the admiration of men was an act of daring, when it had meaning, and but one meaning, acknowledged by all as a high adventure.
Ayn Rand
#38. If I am a prolific writer and turn my hand, with what seems to some as indecent haste, from novels to screenplays to stage and radio plays, it is because there is so much to be said, so few of us to say it, and time runs out.
Fay Weldon
#39. I really detest movies like 'Indecent Proposal' and 'Pretty Woman' because they send a message to women that sleeping with a rich man is the ultimate goal and really that's such a small part of it.
Laura Kightlinger
#40. An unashamedly indecent read. Welsh fans will love it.
Olaf Tyaransen
#41. Christianity has always looked on sex as in some way indecent and sinful; and for that reason Christians cannot possibly associate a truly religious nature 'with an unsuppressed libido. But that is more than a prejudice.'
Lewis Browne
#42. All books can be indecent books
Though recent books are bolder,
For filth, I'm glad to say, is in
The mind of the beholder.
When correctly viewed,
Everything is lewd.
I could tell you things about Peter Pan
And the Wizard of Oz, there's a dirty old man ...
Tom Lehrer
#43. We are not taught to think decently on sex subjects, and consequently we have no language for them except indecent language.
George Bernard Shaw
#44. A saint is a person who behaves decently in a shockingly indecent society.
Kurt Vonnegut
#45. Wherever I see some mystique, be it virtue or family, faith or fatherland, there I must commit some indecent act.
Witold Gombrowicz
#46. Duty, the most indecent of all obsessions, was only another name for love.
Colleen McCullough
#47. I will keep that a secret as it was so indecent I doubt she was in her normal state of mind when she made it.
Robert Pattinson
#48. Yes, you are running businesses, and yes, we understand and accept that, but surely there must be a level beyond which profit from news is simply indecent.
Christiane Amanpour
#49. Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.
Russell Baker
#50. Do you miss wearing your kilt?" she asked.
"In London, it caused more bother than it was worth. Ladies either found it indecent or intriguing. A fair few found it to be both. I was never quite sure whether it was indecently intriguing or intriguingly indecent!
Marguerite Kaye
#51. It was probably indecent to think of a corpse as impotent. But he was, very likely. That would be why his wife had taken up with the prize-fighter Red Evans Williams of Castell Goch.
Ford Madox Ford
#52. It may be said that artist and censor differ in this wise: that the first is a decent mind in an indecent body and that the second is an indecent mind in a decent body.
George Jean Nathan
#53. Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them
Walter Kerr
#54. The ... promptitude with which many painters, on arriving at an entirely new and unfamiliar place, settle down to work at once, never fails to astonish me: it seems indecent, like button-holing a complete stranger.
Augustus John
#55. These gentlemen, although of the highest nobility,' thought Julien, 'are not in the least boring like the people who come to dine with M. de La Mole; and I can see why,' he added a moment later,'they are not ashamed to be indecent.
Stendhal
#56. I have noticed, with much distress, the excessive wartime activity of the investigating bureaus of Congress and the administration, with their impertinent and indecent searching out of the private lives and the past political beliefs of individuals.
Wendell Willkie
#57. When a student at Pomona told me that she'd love to have a chance to think about the things she's studying, only she doesn't have the time, I asked her if she had ever considered not trying to get an A in every class. She looked at me as if I had made an indecent suggestion.
William Deresiewicz
#58. Sometimes decent people must do indecent things.
John Hennessy
#59. Art is an indecent exposure of the consciousness.
Herbert Read
#60. The aspects of patriotism that hush dissent, encourage going along, and sanction comfortable distancing and compliance with what is indecent and unacceptable ... those aspects are too fundamental to ignore or gloss over.
Bernadine Dohrn
#62. It was both odd and unjust, a real example of pitiful arbitrariness of existance, that you were born into a particular time & held prisoner there whether you wanted it or not. It gave you an indecent advantage over the past and made you a clown vis-a-vis the future.
Daniel Kehlmann
#64. When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.
Milan Kundera
#65. There are certain times I don't want my picture taken. If my wife's stepping out of a car and it looks like it's going to come out an indecent picture, don't I have a right to object?
Bobby Darin
#66. It's almost indecent," Mr. Kent said with a sigh.
"What is?"
"The way you look at each other.
Tarun Shanker
#67. I don't think there's one thing I've ever said on the radio that would have been found indecent or obscene.
Howard Stern
#68. There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.
F.H. Bradley
#69. I want to be a top-flight football player, so I lead the life that enables me to be that type of player. I prefer to be seen in a decent light rather than an indecent one.
Michael Owen
#70. what with the follies and an indecent proposal it's been quite a night
Barbra Streisand
#71. There are two races of men in this world, but only these two - the "race" of the decent man and the "race" of the indecent man.
Viktor E. Frankl
#72. I've heard a hundred different variations of instances of unadulterated female victimhood, yet the silence of the feminists is deafening. Where two pieties
feminism and multi-culturalism
come into conflict, the only way of preserving both is an indecent silence.
Theodore Dalrymple
#73. Just this week, my husband proposed a plan for schools and libraries to develop their own plans to keep children from finding indecent material on the Internet as an alternative to a Congressional proposal that would require a federally mandated solution.
Tipper Gore
#74. It isn't the evil and indecent who are flung down into the depths, no! Oh, no! The evil and decisive fling down those who are moral, honest and noble but maladroit, hesitant and full of scruples.
Andrzej Sapkowski
#75. Is this going to be like 'Indecent Proposal?'" she asks. "Because Robert Redford loses at the end.
Karina Halle
#76. I don't see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes.
Robert A. Heinlein
#77. All other societies die finally and with dignity. We die daily. We are always being born again with almost indecent obstetrics.
G.K. Chesterton
#78. But there is always a November space after the leaves have fallen when she felt it was almost indecent to intrude on the woods ... for their glory terrestrial had departed and their glory celestial of spirit and purity and whiteness had not yet come upon them.
L.M. Montgomery
#79. But Christianity is an invention of sick brains: one could imagine nothing more senseless, nor any more indecent way of turning the idea of the Godhead into a mockery.
Adolf Hitler
#80. The world is so full of possibilities that dogmatism is simply indecent.
Albert Einstein
#81. Look, when people came after me for doing 'Indecent Proposal' or 'Disclosure,' I thought, 'Ridiculous.' These people are trying to limit me as an actor. Are they saying I can't play these roles? Well, I've proved I can.
Demi Moore
#82. A man should not play the coward to his deeds. He should not repudiate them once he has performed them. Pangs of conscience are indecent.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#84. Humility is like underwear; essential, but indecent if it shows.
Helen Nielsen
#85. The senator had only one argument in his favour: his feeling. When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object. In the realm of kitsch, the dictatorship of the heart reigns supreme.
Milan Kundera
#86. Carefully studying the delicate form of the doll, she was thinking how easy it was to wish for things as a child. Then nothing seemed impossible. Growing up, one realizes how many things one cannot wish for, the things that are forbidden, sinful. Indecent.
Laura Esquivel
#87. No, no, no, no, no. Anything but murder. Or rape. Or kidnapping. Or armed robbery. Or indecent exposure, 'cause that's just creepy.
Darynda Jones
#88. I don't like indecent, unearned wealth. But it is legitimate for an entrepreneur who has created something to make a good living.
Francois Hollande
#89. If he had given away anything else, he would have been charged with indecent exposure.
Edmund Campion
#90. My Lady, please! I am indecent.' 'You are,' Jane agreed. 'Not to mention the fact that you are also unclothed.
Brodi Ashton
#91. Decent is the last way I want you, she said, skimming her fingers over my stomach, my lower stomach. My lower lower stomach, AKA the last part of exposed skin that, had my towel been hanging any lower, would have been considered indecent.
Nicole Williams
#92. Not to be cowardly when it comes to our own actions! Not to leave them in the lurch!
The sting of conscience is indecent.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#93. If you don't believe in God, all you have to believe in is decency. Decency is very good. Better decent than indecent. But I don't think it's enough.
Harold Macmillan
#94. Of all the strange "crimes" that human beings have legislated out of nothing, "blasphemy" is the most amazing - with "obscenity" and "indecent exposure" fighting it out for second and third place.
Robert A. Heinlein
#96. It may ... be judged indecent in me to come forward on this occasion; but when I see a fellow-creature about to perish through the cowardice of her pretended friends, I wish to be allowed to speak, that I may say what I know of her character.
Mary Shelley
#97. If I don't get food in my mouth, I'm still happy. If my pants are round my ankles, as long as I don't get arrested for indecent exposure, I'm happy. I'm worried about keeping my hair, not how it's combed.
Michael J. Fox
#98. Dawn seemed to follow midnight with indecent haste.
J.K. Rowling
#99. Trees are corrupting our parks. They should be arrested for loitering. For deciduous trees, add littering and indecent exposure to that list of offenses.
Bauvard
#100. It is a maudlin and indecent verity that comes out through the strength of wine.
Joseph Conrad
