Chaste Quote by Joris-Karl Huysmans Download Open image “Only the chaste are truly obscene.” — Joris-Karl Huysmans ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Chaste Obscene
Of all the sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity. — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
It is not pornography that is obscene, it is hunger that is obscene. — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
The human body is not obscene, sexuality is not obscene. But it [pornography] is not sex, it is violence. It encourages acceptance of the… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I think we're in a post-pornographic time and nothing seems shocking, but everything remains carnal no matter what you do. — David LaChapelle Copy Share Image
Sex and obscenity are not synonymous. Obscene material is material which deals with sex in a manner appealing to prurient interest. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nothing that is expressed is obscene. What is obscene is what is hidden. — Nagisa Oshima Copy Share Image
Far from seeking to justify, as does the Church, the necessity of torments and afflictions, he cried, in his outraged pity: 'If a God… — Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
No longer was she merely the dancing-girl who extorts a cry of lust and concupiscence from an old man by the lascivious contortions of… — Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
Ah; but my courage fails me, and my heart is sick within me! —Lord, take pity on the Christian who doubts, on the skeptic… — Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
“There is not one single invention of (Nature's), however subtle or impressive it may be thought to be, that the human spirit cannot create;… — Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
“Ah, when one has not the gift of rendering one's grief superbly and transforming it into literary or musical passages which weep magnificently, the… — Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
“He wanted, in short, a work of art both for what it was in itself and for what it allowed him to bestow on… — Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
(Baudelaire) had descended to the bottom of the inexhaustible mine, had picked his way along abandoned or unexplored galleries, and had finally reached those… — Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
“What he wanted was colours which would appear stronger and clearer in artificial light. He did not particularly care if they looked crude or… — Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
I wish to confound all these people, to create a work of art of a supernatural realism and of a spiritualist naturalism. I wish… — Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
“The Louis XIII style in perfumery, composed of the elements dear to that period - orris-powder, musk, civet and myrtle-water, already known by the… — Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
It is not always from valor or from chastity that men are brave, and women chaste. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The one who has not conquered the passions cannot enter the chaste and pure region of the heart. — Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov Copy Share Image
Manye chapeleyns arn chaste, ac charite is aweye; Are none hardere than hii whan hii ben avaunced: Unkynde to hire kyn and to alle… — William Langland Copy Share Image
Staying chaste until marriage, a commandment of my faith, was one of the most difficult challenges of my young life. I had a powerful… — Feisal Abdul Rauf Copy Share Image
“It is better to lock up your heart with a merciless padlock, than to fall in love with someone who doesn't know what they… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“A virtuos woman is not moved by big names and flamboyance, but only men of profound wisdom and integrity move her.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“The girl's life had been squandered in the streets, and among the most noisome of the stews and dens of London, but there was… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Too chaste an adolescence makes for a dissolute old age. It is doubtless easier to give up something one has known than something one… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
The eye of a man should be still more reverent before the rising of a young maiden than before the rising of a star.… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Mediocre people often have a tinge of religion about them, but it is only a tinge. They take their religion as it comes. They… — Thomas Dubay Copy Share Image
There's a disciplined erotic component to it, so that the height of sexual contact is the embrace, the modest touch, a relatively chaste kiss.… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
