Prudes Quotes

Aren't women prudes if they don't and prostitutes if they do?

I'm certainly not a prude.

A prude is a person who thinks that his own rules of propriety are natural laws.

When people say 'I'm not a prude, but ...' what they mean is 'I am a prude, and ...'.

A tale of scandal is as fatal to the credit of a prudent lady as a fever is generally to those of the strongest constitutions. But there is a sort of puny, sickly reputation, that is always ailing, yet will wither the robuster characters of a hundred prudes.

As a girl, I was always told I was nasty or dirty if I was sexual in any way. Americans are such prudes.

What was exciting in the Victorian Age, would leave a man of franker epoch quite unmoved. The more prudes restrict the permissible degree of sexual appeal, the less is required to make such an appeal effective.

I mean, I'll say the filthiest things in the world, but when it comes down to it, I'm kind of a prude.

My mum certainly isn't a prude, nor is my brother, so I think I'm lucky to have a family like that.

Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.

There are no more thorough prudes than those who have some little secret to hide.

I have always been kind of a prude. But kissing is harmless to me, and sometimes a kiss can tell if it's even worth seeing that person again!

I'm actually totally the prude of my family.

I never quite got the hang of the getting drunk & fondling the thighs [of all the cumbersome young males] business... whether that makes me a gallant & proper gentleman, a cowardly wuss or an unadventurous prude, I cannot make out

I'll be honest: I was a super-late bloomer, and I was kind of a prude.

Holmes, I'm a 24 year old prude.

I would never describe Charlotte as a prude. Maybe at the start, but that was in comparison to the other girls. She wasn't willing to do the stuff they were doing and I mean, thank goodness!

Desponding Phyllis was endu'd With ev'ry Talent of a Prude, She trembled when a Man drew near; Salute her, and she turn'd her Ear: If o'er against her you were plac'd She durst not look above your Waist

In the United States of America, we are so liberal-minded on so many different aspects, but for some reason there's always going to be this weird connection with nudity being a bad thing. American's can be so prude sometimes.