Frankie Boyle Quotes

I think our Western society is very much about, 'Tuck your head in; make sure you're safe. Don't rock the boat.'

The school was prone to dishing out punishments for anything creative that didn't fit with expectation - I just followed the logic and figured the folk club was probably much the same.

In my estimation, the only thing that is more to be guarded against than bad taste is good taste.

When you're writing these things, you're in a room making each other laugh, you really have very little sense of political correctness or incorrectness. This is a question that Europe tends to ask and America doesn't.

If you make decisions based upon people's reactions or judgments then you make really boring choices.

Anyone who sees and paints a sky green and fields blue ought to be sterilized.

When I'm writing for other people, I have to play it safe.

Major labels don't want to take chances on cooler, indie kind of things. People only know, unfortunately, what they're being spoon-fed.

I was definitely the kid who was the chicken, who didn't want to say the cuss words.

We have a society that's trying to make sure that nobody gets any adventures because adventures are dangerous and danger is bad.

I spent my whole career playing it safe, being a gentleman, never doing anything controversial.

Obscenity is a notable enhancer of life and is suppressed at grave peril to the arts.

The truth is always modern and there never comes a time when it is safe to give it voice.

Political correctness is bad.

I had three choices: to conform to my own beliefs, which meant death; complete silence, which meant another kind of death; to pay a tribute, a bribe. I chose the third solution by writing The Long Winter.

You can't say you're going to ban something in the name of good taste, because then you have directed someone to play the role of good-taste police. We - Americans - permit bad taste in this country. In fact, we even encourage it.

There are more and more taboos about calling something, anything, ugly.

Mix sheer hypocrisy with mediocrity, You play it safe every time.

It may be said that artist and censor differ in this wise: that the first is a decent mind in an indecent body and that the second is an indecent mind in a decent body.

Faced with the opportunity to become the category of one, we almost always hesitate, almost always compromise, almost always dumb it down to play it a little bit safer

Political correctness gets in the way of all too many things in this country of ours, I am not a subscriber of political correctness by any means, shape or form.

The one to distrust is the person who never makes a mistake, never commits a blunder, never fails in what he tries to do. Either he is a phony, or he stays with the safe, the tried and the trivial.

In England it is enough for a man to try and produce any serious, beautiful work to lose all his rights as a citizen.

If boys say something that's not funny, you don't have to laugh.

Ridicule, the weapon of all others most feared by enthusiasts of every description, and which from its predominance over such minds, often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble.