Quotes About Prudes

#1. Australia objects to the mini-skirt not on moral but on economic grounds. Australians are no prudes and the lovely, healthy, sporty Australian girls have no reason to hide their knees and thighs. However, the mini-skirt is disastrous for the wool-trade.

George Mikes

#2. A big, spectacular thing can frequently be accomplished quickly. Quality usually takes longer. Fanfare and fireworks are not part of quality; therefore, only those who know true values are attracted to it. But when fanfare and fireworks are over, quality will remain.

Alfred Armand Montapert

#3. She'll soon forget."
"Caddy," said Saffron impatiently, "she is headmistress of the private school! She's probably never forgotten anything in her whole life!

Hilary McKay

#4. Endelle:"Creator, save me from prudes."
Wings of fire

Caris Roane

#5. Experience isn't any use. And yet, in quite another way, it might be. If only we weren't all such miserable fools and prudes and cowards.

Christopher Isherwood

#6. Sawyer watched Rex from the hospital bed. The man was fucking fluttering. Fluffing pillows. Pouring water. Talking to doctors and nurses. Checking on Sawyer without actually talking to him. When

S.E. Jakes

#7. Obviously I'm in favor of protecting the rights of everybody: gay, black, women, what have you, American Indians.

Gore Vidal

#8. A tale of scandal is as fatal to the credit of a prudent lady as a fever is generally to those of the strongest constitutions. But there is a sort of puny, sickly reputation, that is always ailing, yet will wither the robuster characters of a hundred prudes.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#9. There must be room in our world for eccentricity, even if it offends the prudes, and room for the vague other-worldliness that often goes with genius.

Boris Johnson

#10. Aren't women prudes if they don't and prostitutes if they do?

Kate Millett

#11. Let our advance worrying become our advance thinking and planning. - Winston Churchill

David Allen

#12. Malkin concluded with this advice for parents: Be "prudes." Be "rude." Be "shrill." And never, ever feel ashamed for asking out loud, "Have you no shame?"[30]

James C. Dobson

#13. American feminism has a man problem. The beaming Betty Crockers, hangdog dowdies, and parochial prudes who call themselves feminists want men to be like women. They fear and despise the masculine. The academic feminists think their nerdy bookworm husbands are the ideal model of human manhood. But

Camille Paglia

#14. I have always been kind of a prude. But kissing is harmless to me, and sometimes a kiss can tell if it's even worth seeing that person again!

Whitney Port

#15. There are no more thorough prudes than those who have some little secret to hide.

George Sand

#16. Novels are nice,' my friend said. 'They stop.' He waggled his fingers to make quotation marks in the air. 'They say, 'The End.' Very nice. A marvelous invention. Here we have stories, but never 'The End.

Philip Gourevitch

#17. I hate the man who builds his name On ruins of another's fame. Thus prudes, by characters o'erthrown, Imagine that they raise their own. Thus Scribblers, covetous of praise, Think slander can transplant the bays.

John Gay

#18. Desponding Phyllis was endu'd
With ev'ry Talent of a Prude,
She trembled when a Man drew near;
Salute her, and she turn'd her Ear:
If o'er against her you were plac'd
She durst not look above your Waist

Jonathan Swift

#19. It is well for his peace that the saint goes to his martyrdom. He is spared the sight of the horror of his harvest.

Oscar Wilde

#20. I thought you lot brought a buildin' down on 'is 'ead."
"We did," Sam replied before she could. "I don't think it took.

Kady Cross

#21. People eating the western diet of heavily processed food, of lots of meat and added sugar and added fat, and very little whole grains and fruits and vegetables.Populations who eat that way have seriously high incidences of chronic diseases.

Michael Pollan

#22. What was exciting in the Victorian Age, would leave a man of franker epoch quite unmoved. The more prudes restrict the permissible degree of sexual appeal, the less is required to make such an appeal effective.

Bertrand Russell

#23. When people say 'I'm not a prude, but ... ' what they mean is 'I am a prude, and ... '.

John Cleese

#24. Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.

Moliere

#25. As a girl, I was always told I was nasty or dirty if I was sexual in any way. Americans are such prudes.

Jessica Alba