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Obscene Quotes

I pass by that it is very culpable to be facetious in obscene and smutty matters.

I pass by that it is very culpable to be facetious in obscene and smutty matters.

Isaac Barrow
Matter, Facetious, Obscene
Isaac Barrow (1830). “The Works of Dr. Isaac Barrow”, p.366

The only thing that is obscene is censorship.

Craig Reucassel
Censorship, Obscene

Nothing that is expressed is obscene. What is obscene is what is hidden.

Nagisa Oshima
Obscene
"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

Sex and obscenity are not synonymous.

Lenny Bruce
Sex, Obscenity, Obscene
Lenny Bruce (1992). “How to Talk Dirty and Influence People”, p.127, Simon and Schuster

Women should be obscene, not heard.

Groucho Marx
Should, Heard, Obscene

To me, the most obscene word in our language is celibacy.

Robert Green Ingersoll
Language, Celibacy, Obscene
Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.727, Library of Alexandria

Only the chaste are truly obscene.

Joris-Karl Huysmans
Chaste, Obscene

There's nothing so obscene and depressing as an American Christmas.

Edward Abbey
Depressing, Obscene
Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.16, RosettaBooks

But I could never make a judgement that something was obscene.

Damien Hirst
Judgement, Standards, Obscene

It is not pornography that is obscene, it is hunger that is obscene.

Jose Saramago
Hunger, Pornography, Obscene
Interview with Jose Eugenio "Jo" Soares on "Jo Soares Eleven Thirty", 1997.

I strain to hear, but my old ears, for all their obscene hugeness, pick up nothing but snippets.

Sara Gruen
Ears, Obscene, Strain

Tout ce qui est anachronique est obsce' ne. Everything anachronistic is obscene.

Roland Barthes
Obscene

Stinky says women should be obscene but not heard.

Robert A. Heinlein
Should, Heard, Obscene
Stranger in a Strange Land ch. 35 (1961).

How can my ankles and arms be obscene?

Libba Bray
Ankles, Arms, Obscene
Libba Bray (2010). “A Great and Terrible Beauty”, p.112, Simon and Schuster

I never minded George Steinbrenner spending obscene amounts of money to put the best product on the field.

Jay Mohr
Fields, Spending, Obscene

guilt is the cause of more marauders than history's most obscene disauders

e. e. cummings
Guilt, Causes, Obscene

How ravished one could be without ever being touched. Ravished by dead words become obscene and dead ideas become obsessions.

D. H. Lawrence
Ideas, Obsession, Obscene
D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.3768, Delphi Classics

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