Prude Quotes

My birth sign is Scorpio and they eat themselves up and burn themselves out. I swing between happiness and misery. I am part prude and part nonconformist. I say what I think and I don't pretend and I am prepared to accept the consequences of my actions. (Vivien Leigh)

I'm not a prude, I just want some respect (that's right) So close the door if you want me to respond Cause privacy is my middle name My last name is control No, my first name ain't baby It's Janet - Ms. Jackson, if you're nasty.

Janet Jackson

I don't like swearing on the air. As a matter of fact, I'm not a prude, but... I watch HBO and some of the comedy stuff, and I'm constantly asking myself, 'Why have we gone there?' It seems like it's unfortunate. It's so cheap. It's so easy.

Brian Lamb

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

Robert A. Heinlein

You can't be a telepath and remain any kind of prude. People's lives were their own business, if they didn't hurt anyone else too badly.

Poul Anderson

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!

Kristin Davis

I'm certainly not a prude.

Kim Cattrall

All those years that my image on the screen as "sex goddess"-well that makes me laugh. Sex was never important to me. I'm sorry if that disappoints you, but it's true. Romance, yes. Romance was very important. But I never liked being rushed into bed, and I never allowed it. I'd put it off as long as I could and I gave in only when I was in love, or thought I was. It was always the courtship, the cuddling, and the closeness that I cared about, never the act of sex itself-with some exceptions of course. I'm not masquerading as a prude, but I've always been portrayed as a sexy woman, and that's wrong. Sensuous, yes. When I'm involved with someone I care for deeply, I can feel sensual. But that's a private matter.

Lana Turner

The so-called pejorative tendency has yet another cause. It is in the nature of human malice to take pleasure in looking for a vice or a fault behind a quality. The French have the adjective prude, which had formerly a good and noble acceptation, since it is the feminine of preux. But the spirit of the narrators (perhaps also some feeling of rancour against the loftier virtues) turned this adjective aside towards the equivocal sense that it now bears. Words which refer to the relations of the sexes are especially exposed to changes of this kind. We remember what a noble signification amant and mattress still possessed in Corneille. But they are dethroned, as was Buhle in German. Here we see the inevitable results of a false delicacy; honourable names are dishonoured by being given to things which are dishonourable.

Michel Bréal

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

Andy Richter

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. Americans can be so prude sometimes. (Erin Wasson)

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

Roxanne McKee

I'm actually totally the prude of my family.

Sue Naegle

I'm not a prude. On the set, they called me 'Butt Naked.'

Cuba Gooding, Jr.

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

Peter Wentz

While I too may be wrong about North Korea's intentions, I'm neither lying nor guessing. Granted, it's not easy figuring out what any country wants. America? Damned if I know anymore. The beginning of political wisdom is the recognition that no government's discourse can be trusted. That goes also for the regime our softliners consider uniquely guileless. And the beginning of I.R. wisdom is the realization that foreign-service officials lie especially often. I had to laugh when I first heard of a news magazine called The Diplomat; it's like calling a porn magazine The Prude.

Brian Reynolds Myers