Kristin Davis Quotes

My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language.

I've managed to keep my clothes on for everything I've done so far.

Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum.

Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.

Chastity is the cement of civilization and progress. Without it there is no stability in society, and without it one cannot attain the Science of Life.

Those expressions are omitted which can not with propriety be read aloud in the family.

Modesty forbids what the law does not.

I'm actually totally the prude of my family.

I consider myself to be very correct and proper: an upright citizen.

Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.

No age, sex, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one is vastly beneath the rank of man.

Moral character has now some influence in our elections, but not that place which it deserves. The law of public opinion excludes confirmed sots, and persons judicially convicted of high crimes and misdemeanors against the State; but it ought to render the election of all profane swearers, notorious Sabbath breakers, seducers, slanderers, prodigals and riotous persons, as well as the advocates of dueling, impracticable.

I'm prudish.

In some ways, 'decency' is a hazy concept; we know it when we see it.

I always fought against vulgarity, double meaning dialogues and wearing la'dies' clothes.

Modesty and chastity are twins

As to modesty and decency, if we are simians we have done well, considering: but if we are something else-fallen angels-we have indeed fallen far.

Modesty is the conscience of the body.

I shall produce nothing that will offend the proprieties, whether applied to children or grownups. My pictures are turned out with clean hands and, therefore, with a clear conscience which, like virtue, is its own reward.

And if people do like me, I think it's because I'm a stand-up guy.

It is necessary to make virtue fashionable.

Virtue consisted in avoiding scandal and venereal disease.

I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world.

Women are taught that if you want to be a lady, keep your opinions to yourself and be polite.

We must watch over our modesty in the presence of those who cannot understand its grounds.