Prudes Quotes

• I'm certainly not a prude.

  Kim Cattrall

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Brian Lamb

  Hbo, Air, Matter

  "Lamb looks back on C-SPAN" by Patrick Gavin, www.politico.com. March 22, 2012.

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• A prude is a person who thinks that his own rules of propriety are natural laws.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Thinking, Law, Natural

  "Stranger in a Strange Land". Book by Robert A. Heinlein, June 1, 1961.

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• Aren't women prudes if they don't and prostitutes if they do?

  Kate Millett

  Women, Ifs

  "Word Origin Comics: Being a Prude While Maintaining Your Pride" by Larry Paros, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 9, 2015.

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• 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

  Girl, Dirty, Way

  "Fantasy figure" by Allison Glock, www.theguardian.com. July 17, 2005.

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

  Andy Richter

  Mean, World, Kind

  Interview with Claire Zulkey, www.avclub.com. March 23, 2009.

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• 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.

  Vivien Leigh

  Thinking, Swings, Scorpios

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

  George Sand

  Secret, Littles, Thorough

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

  Moliere

  Age, Twenties, Knows

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

  John Cleese

  Mean, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  Pete Wentz

  Honest, Kind, Late

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

  Sue Naegle

  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.

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• 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.

  Karen Abbott

  Thinking, Rose, Today

  Source: tech.blorge.com

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• 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.

  Tamsin Egerton

  Reality, Thinking, Clothes

  Source: collider.com

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• 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.'

  Pamela Moore

  Air, Water, Als

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• Holmes, I'm a 24 year old prude.

  Laurie R. King

  Years, Holmes

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• 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.

  Honore de Balzac

  Mother, Loss, Hands

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• 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.

  Vanessa Hudgens

  Fun, School, Kids

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

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• 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

  Kissing, Kind, Sometimes

  Source: www.seventeen.com

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• 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

  Hate, Character, Men

  John Gay, Nathaniel Cotton, Edward Moore (1826). “Gay's Fables and other poems: Cotton's visions in verse ; Moore's Fables for the female sex ; with sketches of the authors' lives”, p.73

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• 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

  Men, Looks, Ears

  Jonathan Swift, John Arbuthnot, Alexander Pope, John Gay (1742). “Miscellanies. In Four Volumes”, p.183

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• 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.

  Noel Coward

  Food, Pigs, Virginia

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• 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.

  Gaelen Foley

  Kissing, Hands, Names

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• 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!

  Kristin Davis

  Girl, Mean, Stuff

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My mum certainly isn't a prude, nor is my brother, so I think I'm lucky to have a family like that.

  Roxanne McKee

  Brother, Thinking, Lucky

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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