Prudishness Quotes

• Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

  Graham Greene

  Dumb, Literature, World

  'The Quiet American' (1955) pt. 1, ch. 3

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• Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

  Graham Greene

  Dumb, Would Be, Literature

  'The Quiet American' (1955) pt. 1, ch. 3

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• Genius is, to be sure, not a matter of arbitrariness, but rather of freedom, just as wit, love, and faith, which once shall become arts and disciplines. We should demand genius from everybody, without, however, expecting it.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Love, Art, Discipline

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• Let's start with some of the reasons that the press holds its tongue and some of the things that you don't know because of this. We'll begin with squeamishness, prudishness, timidity and an overdeveloped fear of offending someone... So much for squeamishness and prudishness. There are many other reasons that we editors fail you in this pact you and we have. Let me name a few more: Orthodoxy, conventional thinking, a misplaced pleasure at being on the inside, incompetence and laziness.

  Geneva Overholser

  Thinking, Offending, Editors

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• Abortion is the only event that modern liberals think too violent and obscene to portray on TV. This is not because they are squeamish or prudish. It is because if people knew what Abortion really looked like, it would destroy their pretence that it is a civilized answer to the problem of what to do about unwanted babies.

  Peter Hitchens

  Baby, Thinking, People

  "A calamity for women... just as the doctor predicted" by Peter Hitchens, www.dailymail.co.uk. October 27, 2007.

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• 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

  Beautiful, Talking, Dignity

  Jason Evert, Crystalina Evert (2011). “How To Find Your Soulmate without Losing Your Soul: 21 Secrets for Women”, p.126, Totus Tuus Press

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• 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

  Men, Long, Evil

  "Dialogue on Poetry and Literary Aphorisms (Selected Aphorisms from the Athenaeum (1798) #31)". Book by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel translated by Ernst Behler and Roman Struc, 1968.

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• 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

  Giving, Cooking, Flavor

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• 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

  America, Different, Way

  "Avocados and Vaginas". Interview with Joe Saxon, www.thestateofthearts.co.uk. May 16, 2015.

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