1984 Quote by George Orwell

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