Quotes About Prudishness

#1. Sex: In America an obsession. In other parts of the world a fact.

Marlene Dietrich

#2. Prudishness is pretense of innocence without innocence. Women have to remain prudish as long as men are sentimental, dense, and evil enough to demand of them eternal innocence and lack of education. For innocence is the only thing which can ennoble lack of education.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#3. Life without music is no life at all.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#4. There's an underlying puritanicalness in America that is not that different to the prudishness of Britain - it just manifests itself in different ways.

Eve Ensler

#5. If pride is a sin ... moral pride is the greatest sin.

John Irving

#6. You may take the most gallant sailor, the most intrepid airman, or the most audacious soldier, put them at a table together- what do you get? The sum of their fears.

Winston Churchill

#7. The grotesque prudishness and archness with which garlic is treated in [England] has led to the superstition that rubbing the bowl with it before putting the salad in gives sufficient flavor. It rather depends whether you are going to eat the bowl or the salad.

Elizabeth David

#8. I love Chrissie Hynde and Mick Jagger. Someone at Capitol pointed out how much my inflections are similar to Jagger's.

Meredith Brooks

#9. I have never understood why public opinion about European ideas should be taken into account.

Raymond Barre

#10. Scott himself had taught me that in the boundless sphere of the intellect there is no prudishness, no shockability. There is only evaluation of facts, and a morality founded on truth.

Sheilah Graham

#11. So many people just have that innate thing that allows them to express themselves in a way the majority can follow. That's when you're affecting culture.

Pharrell Williams

#12. Without question, purity is beautiful. We're not talking about repression or prudishness, but about having a confident and serene sense of your dignity and worth.

Jason Evert

#13. Modern scientific knowledge appeared piecemeal. Historians wrote about human history; physicists tackled the material world; and biologists studied the world of living organisms. But there were few links between these disciplines, as researchers focused on getting the details right.

David Christian

#14. I'm not interested in the next generation, dear. I'm interested in us.' - Julia

George Orwell

#15. To treat of human actions is to deal wholly with second causes.

Herman Melville

#16. When I was a kid, I wanted to be a boy. I really had gender issues. I really thought I was supposed to be a boy. I used to sneak into my dad's room and put on a suit, drink a cocktail, and pretend to smoke a cigarette.

Jane Lynch

#17. If thy words are wise, they will not seem so to the foolish: if they are deep the shallow will not appreciate them. Think not highly of thyself, then, when thou art praised by many.

John Lancaster Spalding

#18. People retire to do what I do every day.

Mark McCormack

#19. When I was growing up, in our house nudity was defined as the period of time between the shower and your towel.

Amy Cohen