Indecency Quotes

Our cautious ancestors, when yawning, blocked the way to the entrance of evil spirits by putting their hands before their mouths. We find a reason for the gesture in the delicacy of manner which forbids an indecent exposure.

Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.

Although my mother and father were both completely legit, it was all around me, this crime and licentiousness.

Loathsome hordes dark swarms of worms that emerge from the narrow crevices of their holes when the sun is high, preferring to cover the villainous faces with hair rather than their private parts and surrounding areas with clothes.

[Benjamin Franklin's life was:] ... one continued insult to good manners and decency.

Sexual behavior was also generally considered off limits.

When you write fiction, there were things about Washington that I've experienced and wanted to write about, including the swamping nature of it, the compromises people come to town and are forced to make, and also, when writing about Joe McCarthy, the indecency and lies that he put forward that people didn't take a stand about.

The Nation’s most conspicuous vulgarian

My worst habit is...getting naked all the time haha...sorry.

Decency cannot be discussed without indecency!

Those who do not serve the public interest should not hold a public license.

Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.

The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it.

To expose a first draft to anyone's ears other than your own is indecent.

Filth is always a sign of weakness - in the mouth of the user and in the mind of the writer.

If something is too risque, don't watch it.

Jesting and levity accustom a man to lewdness.

Obscenity comes from grime.

Every young sculptor seems to think that he must give the world some specimen of indecorous womanhood, and call it Eve, Venus, a Nymph, or any name that may apologize for a lack of decent clothing.

I could not remove myself from this debate about Trump. I could not abide his indecency. I could not live with the way he treated other people.

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

Oh, by the way, I tend to use a lot of profanities. I do that for a reason: I like it.

Violent content on television is more dangerous to children than indecency.

A saint is a person who behaves decently in a shockingly indecent society.