I'm not interested in the next generation, dear. I'm…

When you've gone through so much bullshit and you don't care anymore you just want to feel lost in your own little world.

— Dezz

“We are a Faustian generation, my dear--we seek to know what we are maybe not designed (if we are designed) to be able to…

— A.S. Byatt

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…

— Jason Evert

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

— Amy Cohen

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

Prudishness is pretense of innocence without innocence. Women have to remain prudish as long as men are sentimental, dense, and evil enough to demand…

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Genius is, to be sure, not a matter of arbitrariness, but rather of freedom, just as wit, love, and faith, which once shall become…

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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…

— Geneva Overholser

“As Victorian-era prudishness set in, some upstanding citizens also took to putting coverlets over the instrument’s legs out of an exaggerated sense of modesty.”

— Stuart Isacoff

“Press conference [on the movie Carrington ] yielded the usual crop of daftness. I've been asked if I related personally to Carrington's tortured relationship…

— Emma Thompson

Abortion is the only event that modern liberals think too violent and obscene to portray on TV. This is not because they are squeamish…

— Peter Hitchens

“If your relationship doesn't make prudishness and promiscuity seem pointless, it has not yet reached the right level of sensual authenticity.”

— Lebo Grand

The grotesque prudishness and archness with which garlic is treated in [England] has led to the superstition that rubbing the bowl with it before…

— Elizabeth David

“Rosemary was unaccustomed to worrying about what people thought of her memories. She certainly did not judge others on theirs. In a society that…

— Cade octavia

“I’m losing the appetite for strangers. Once I would have focused on the excitement, the hazard; now it’s the mess, the bother. Getting your…

— Margaret Atwood