Quotes About Prudery

#1. This book is a tribute to the men and women who dared. Who, to this day, endure ignorance, closed minds, righteousness, and prudery. Their lives are not easy. But their cocktail parties are the best. p

Mary Roach

#2. Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.

Stendhal

#3. Stupidity is a fact of life, but unmentionable. The new Prudery.

Mason Cooley

#4. There is a false modesty, which is vanity; a false glory, which is levity; a false grandeur, which is meanness; a false virtue, which is hypocrisy, and a false wisdom, which is prudery.

Jean De La Bruyere

#5. That prudery which survives youth and beauty resembles a scarecrow left in the fields after harvest.

Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

#6. Prudery is ignorance.

Oliver Goldsmith

#7. It has sometimes been said that prudery reached such a height in the nineteenth century that people took to dressing their piano legs in little skirts lest they rouse anyone to untimely passion. Thomas

Bill Bryson

#8. The peculiarity of prudery is to station the more sentries the less the fortress is menaced.

Victor Hugo

#9. It was an age of lavishness. Of enormous meals, enormous families, enormous spreading skirts and an enormous, spreading Empire. An age of gross living, grinding poverty, inconceivable prudery, insufferable complacency and incomparable enterprise.

M.M. Kaye

#10. The peculiarity of prudery is to place all the more sentinels in proportion as the fortress is the less menaced.

Victor Hugo

#11. Prudery is often immodestly modest; its habit is to multiply sentinels in proportion as the fortress is less threatened.

George D. Prentice

#12. Prudery is a form of selfishness, a means of self-protection made necessary by the strength of one's own desires.

Yukio Mishima

#13. It's hard to keep a secret when it's written all over your body ...

Julia Hoban

#14. A life of mediocrity is a waste of a life.

Colleen Hoover

#15. Everyone works for everyone else. We can't do without anyone. Even Epsilons are useful. We couldn't do without Epsilons. Everyone works for everyone else. We can't do without anyone.

Aldous Huxley

#16. Sometimes, when you really want to get to know a person but have boundaries that prevent you from doing so, you learn about them as much as you can.

Lauren Lola

#17. Adrian Peterson is redefining the way teams defend the running ability.

Emmitt Smith

#18. I've always had this strong sense that I know best.

Richard Coyle

#19. The way I look at scripture, we're given one right and only one--the ability to choose. Anything and everything else we are given is grace.

Darlene Schacht

#20. I believe we should work and want to have the most powerful military, but hope we never have to use it. I strongly believe the military should know they are 100 percent supported by the commander in chief.

Phil Roe

#21. There's an enormous propaganda machine in this world,' Peter said, 'that tries to make people think love - real, earthy, sweaty love - is wrong. But how in the hell they expect to propagate the race that way is beyond me.

Jack Iams

#22. What is good about Good Friday? Why isn't it called Bad Friday? Because out of the appallingly bad came what was inexpressibly good. And the good trumps the bad, because though the bad was temporary, the good is eternal.

Randy Alcorn

#23. There's a reason I'm known - to bring people to Allah, to God.

Muhammad Ali

#24. There are cases in which the greatest daring is the greatest wisdom.

Carl Von Clausewitz