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  • 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.

    Men   Age   Prudes  
    Bertrand Russell (2009). “Marriage and Morals”, p.75, Routledge
  • If there's one American belief I hold above all others, it's that those who would set themselves up in judgment on matters of what is "right" and what is "best" should be given no rest; that they should have to defend their behavior most stringently. ... As a nation, we've been through too many fights to preserve our rights of free thought to let them go just because some prude with a highlighter doesn't approve of them

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

    Girl   Dirty   Prudes  
    "Fantasy figure" by Allison Glock, www.theguardian.com. July 17, 2005.
  • You could be a gambler. A thief, for all I know. Besides—” He captured her hand and stopped her from walking on, holding her in place. “Besides what, you insufferable prude?” “Prude, eh? Do you need another kiss to remind you what a prude I am?” “Don’t you dare.” “Then don’t call me names.” “You started it.

    Kissing   Hands   Names  
  • I would never describe Charlotte as a prude. Maybe at the start, but that was in comparison to the other girls. She wasn't willing to do the stuff they were doing and I mean, thank goodness!

    Girl   Mean   Prudes  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • 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!

    Kissing   Prudes   Kind  
    Source: www.seventeen.com
  • I don't think any actors love taking their clothes off on film, unless you're an exhibitionist, which I'm certainly not. Those are the scenes that you actually dread doing. But, so much more goes into this role. As an actress, it's all about reality, and I'm not a prude. I'm not someone who judges other people for taking their clothes off for roles. I'm not going to show everything, but nudity here or there doesn't faze me.

    Source: collider.com
  • I'll be honest: I was a super-late bloomer, and I was kind of a prude.

    Prudes   Honest   Kind  
  • 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.

  • Any part of the piggy Is quite all right with me Ham from Westphalia, ham from Parma Ham as lean as the Dalai Lama Ham from Virginia, ham from York, Trotters Sausages, hot roast pork. Crackling crisp for my teeth to grind on Bacon with or without the rind on Though humanitarian I'm not a vegetarian. I'm neither crank nor prude nor prig And though it may sound infra dig Any part of the darling pig Is perfectly fine with me.

    Food   Pigs   Virginia  
  • I'm actually totally the prude of my family.

    "Why HBO's Sue Naegle Didn't Lose Sleep Over 'Homeland's' Big Wins". Interview with Stacey Wilson Hunt, www.hollywoodreporter.com. December 05, 2012.
  • Aren't women prudes if they don't and prostitutes if they do?

    Women   Prudes   Ifs  
    "Word Origin Comics: Being a Prude While Maintaining Your Pride" by Larry Paros, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 9, 2015.
  • A prude is a person who thinks that his own rules of propriety are natural laws.

    Thinking   Law   Prudes  
    "Stranger in a Strange Land". Book by Robert A. Heinlein, June 1, 1961.
  • In the United States of America, we are so liberal-minded on so many different aspects, but for some reason there's always going to be this weird connection with nudity being a bad thing. American's can be so prude sometimes.

    "Erin Wasson: Miss Start-of-Winter Pick-Me-Up". Interview with Eli Rosenberg, www.esquire.com. December 22, 2010.
  • Holmes, I'm a 24 year old prude.

    Years   Prudes   Holmes  
  • When people say 'I'm not a prude, but ...' what they mean is 'I am a prude, and ...'.

    Mean   People   Prudes  
    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • Oh, Al, shut up! Stop criticizing me! First I'm criticized for being a prude and sounding like a social worker or something, then I'm criticized for looking like a cheap broad. How am I supposed to live? Under the water or something, coming up only to say 'I beg your pardon if I disturb you by coming up for air. I'll do my best to remain submerged.'

    Air   Water   Als  
  • I was a superlate bloomer, and I was kind of a prude. I always wanted to be able to keep the number of people I've had sex with very low, because I never wanted to have to tell my future wife, "Oh, yeah, I was with 30 people."

    Sex   Numbers   People  
    Source: www.elle.com
  • 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.

    Funny   Girl   Humor  
  • I mean, I'll say the filthiest things in the world, but when it comes down to it, I'm kind of a prude.

    Mean   Prudes   World  
    Interview with Claire Zulkey, www.avclub.com. March 23, 2009.
  • I don't like swearing on the air. As a matter of fact, I'm not a prude, but I go to the movies and then wonder - I asked myself the same question, and I watch HBO and some of the comedy stuff, and I'm constantly asking myself, why have we gone there? It seems like it's unfortunate. It's so cheap.

    Hbo   Air   Matter  
    "Lamb looks back on C-SPAN" by Patrick Gavin, www.politico.com. March 22, 2012.
  • Before High School Musical, I wanted to be a nitty-gritty actress. And High School Musical came along, and, I was like, "Oh my God, fun!" But the more we did it, the more prude I became.... When I am around kids and they come up to me, of course I am going to act a certain way, but at the end of the day, I'm doing this for myself. I'm going to be doing movies kids can't watch.

    Fun   School   Kids  
    "Vanessa Hudgens: Hey Look! She's All Grown Up". Interview with Amy Spencer, www.glamour.com. June 27, 2010.
  • 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

    Men   Prudes   Looks  
    Jonathan Swift, John Arbuthnot, Alexander Pope, John Gay (1742). “Miscellanies. In Four Volumes”, p.183
  • I never quite got the hang of the getting drunk & fondling the thighs [of all the cumbersome young males] business... whether that makes me a gallant & proper gentleman, a cowardly wuss or an unadventurous prude, I cannot make out

  • It is an old trick. The playgoer who does not like dirty plays is denounced as a prude; the music-lover who resents cacophony is told he is a pedant; and in all these matters the final crushing blow administered to the man of discrimination is the ascription to him of a hidebound prejudice against things that are new because they are new.

    Crush   Dirty   Blow  
    Royal Cortissoz (1916). “Art and common sense”
  • Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.

    Age   Prudes   Twenties  
  • Are you a prude?' He seemed genuinely curious. 'No!' But after a second, I said, 'But may be compared to you, yes! I like my privacy. I get to decide who sees me naked. Do you get my point?' 'Yes. Objectively speaking, you have beautiful points.' I thought the top of my head would pop off... (Sookie Stackhouse & Claude, Dead in the Family)

    Beautiful   Naked   May  
  • My birth sign is Scorpio and they eat themselves up and burn themselves out. I swing between happiness and misery. I am part prude and part nonconformist. I say what I think and I don't pretend and I am prepared to accept the consequences of my actions.

  • I think Gypsy [Rose Lee] would be appalled at today's rawer, more blatant displays of the female form. She was, in her own way, a prude.

    Thinking   Rose   Today  
    Source: tech.blorge.com
  • A woman, even a prude, is not long at a loss, however dire her plight. She would seen always to have in hand the fig leaf our Mother Eve bequeathed to her.

    Mother   Loss   Hands  
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