Character Quote by Witold Gombrowicz

If throughout your life you abstain from murder, theft, fornication, perjury, blasphemy, and disrespect toward your parents, church, and your king, you are conventionally…

— Bertrand Russell

A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.

— Miguel de Cervantes

Not that I am ashamed of my mind or body, my birth or breeding, my actions or fortunes, for my bashfulness is in my…

— Margaret Cavendish

Virtue is uncommon in all the classes of humanity; and I suppose it will scarcely be imagined more frequent in a prison than in…

— Samuel Johnson

There is something indecent in words .

— Cesare Pavese

“19The wrong things the sinful self does are clear: being sexually unfaithful, not being pure, taking part in sexual sins,20worshiping gods, doing witchcraft, hating,…

— Bobbie Wolgemuth

If you cannot conduct yourself with propriety, give place to those who can.

— Horace

Indecency in anything spoils it. And modesty in anything adorns it.

— Ibn Majah

Sweet, sane, still Nakedness in Nature! — ah if poor, sick, prurient humanity in cities might really know you once more! Is not nakedness…

— Walt Whitman

“I hope, as he assures me, he was not guilty of Indecency; but have Reason to bless God, who, by disabling me in my…

— Samuel Richardson

Would you who judge of the lawfulness or unlawfulness of pleasure, take this rule; whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience,…

— Robert Southey

Everywhere and at all times it is in thy power piously to acquiesce in thy present condition, and to behave justly to those who…

— Marcus Aurelius