Facetious Quote by Isaac Barrow Download Open image “I pass by that it is very culpable to be facetious in obscene and smutty matters.” — Isaac Barrow ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Facetious Matter Obscene
Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt. — Isaac Barrow Copy Share Image
It's true that obscenity is a matter of taste and in the eye of the beholder. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
There is a fine line between sensuousness and vulgarity. I will not cross that line. — Jasmin Bhasin Copy Share Image
I don't care if you're obscene, filthy, horrendous -- as long as you're honest. — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
Vulgarity is the conduct of other people, just as falsehoods are the truths of other people. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I draw the line at filth and crude language. It seems to be an excuse for not being funny. — Rolf Harris Copy Share Image
“Obscenity is the distinguishing hallmark of a sadly limited vocabulary.” — Gail Honeyman Copy Share Image
Nothing that is expressed is obscene. What is obscene is what is hidden. — Nagisa Oshima Copy Share Image
However common irreverence and profanity become, they are nonetheless wrong — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character… — George Washington Copy Share Image
No adversity is in kind or degree peculiar to us; but if we survey the conditions of other men (of our brethren everywhere, of… — Isaac Barrow Copy Share Image
If we desire to live securely, comfortably, and quietly, that by all honest means we should endeavor to purchase the good will of all… — Isaac Barrow Copy Share Image
He that loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter. By study, by reading,… — Isaac Barrow Copy Share Image
Chance never writ a legible book; chance never built a fair house; chance never drew a neat picture; it never did any of these… — Isaac Barrow Copy Share Image
The proper work of man, the grand drift of human life, is to follow reason, that noble spark kindled in us from heaven. — Isaac Barrow Copy Share Image
Nothing hath wrought more prejudice to religion, or brought more disparagement upon truth, than boisterous and unseasonable zeal. — Isaac Barrow Copy Share Image
Upright simplicity is the deepest wisdom, and perverse craft the merest shallowness. — Isaac Barrow Copy Share Image
The fruits of the earth do not more obviously require labor and cultivation to prepare them for our use and subsistence, than our faculties… — Isaac Barrow Copy Share Image
It is commonly said that revenge is sweet, but to a calm and considerate mind, patience and forgiveness are sweeter. — Isaac Barrow Copy Share Image
MR. KHARIS: 'Does Mr. Celine seriously suggest that the United States Government is in need of a guardian?' MR. CELINE: 'I am merely offering… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
The story is told of Lord Kelvin, a famous Scotch physicist of the last century, that after he had given a lecture on atoms… — Arthur Compton Copy Share Image
I am in no way facetious, nor disposed for the mirth and galliardize of company, yet in one dream I can compose a whole… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
A favorite science fiction writer of mine is William Faulkner! It was an idea that came to me once, years ago, and I've never… — Robert Reed Copy Share Image
The two girls disappeared into the stern cabin once more. Will watched them go, then asked Halt, 'Anything you'd like me to do? Grow… — John Flanagan Copy Share Image
The miser and the glutton are two facetious buzzards: one hides his store, and the other stores his hide. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
I am perhaps being a bit facetious but if some of my good Baptist brethren in Georgia had done a little preaching from the… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“Villainessa Tittel was a hired killer, an assassin by trade. She had enjoyed the best education and had been trained by assassins who had… — Christina Engela Copy Share Image
“This is the sort of bloody nonsense up with which I will not put!” — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
To be over much facetious is the accomplishment of courtiers and blemish of the wise. — Saadi Copy Share Image
Socrates, when informed of some derogating speeches one had used concerning him behind his back, made only this facetious reply, "Let him beat me… — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
I don't want to sound facetious, but humour is the key to the soul. You know what I mean? — Martin Lawrence Copy Share Image
