Prude Quotes

“--the ethereal, fine-nerved, sensitive girl, quite unfitted by temperament and instinct to fulfil the conditions of the matrimonial relation with Phillotson, possibly with scarce any man...”
― Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure

“Lying mouth to mouth, kiss to kiss in the pillow dark, loin to loin in unbelievable surrendering sweetness so distant from all our mental fearful abstractions it makes you wonder why men have termed God antisexual somehow (p. 148)”
― Jack Kerouac, Big Sur

“Why not? If you're not going to let me see you naked, we might as well be girlfriends."
"You're a twisted little man."
"Come on, Stretch, share with the class."
"No!" I laughed.
"Prude."
"Perv."
"Schoolmarm."
"Some other word that essentially means perv.”
― Molly Harper, Nice Girls Don't Have Fangs

“One of the Christian's biggest fears is appearing 'too Christian'. God forbid, because that's often characterized as god-awful! We want to be one, but without being 'one of them'.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“He gave a wry smile. With all this vigilant vigils on virginity, you would think the country would have controlled its population by now.”
― Mallika Nawal, I'm a Woman & I'm on SALE

“On the inside, the copycats of the ruffians are more delicate than the copycats of prudes.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“Give me the Black Death over a Victorian prude any day. At least the dying screw like it's their last day on earth.”
― R.E. Vance, GoneGodWorld, Episode One

“Nim looked aghast. “Of course not. Do you think my future wife would be a servant? No—it’s Number Seven of the wives. Her name is Begonia.”
“Oh, no, Nim,” Vesper said. “You can’t fall for one of the wives! She’s married. And to the king, no less. That’s illegal. Maybe it shouldn’t be, but you’ll still probably be arrested if anyone finds out—or worse.”
“I knew you’d say that,” Nim said, turning away. “You’re such a prude, Vesper. Love is above things like rules. And the king has so many wives and mistresses—he doesn’t even remember all of them.”
― Colleen Chen, Dysmorphic Kingdom

“I didn't mind the fact I was a virgin still, but I knew some girls saw it as a badge of shame. It was ridiculous how society acted. You were a prude if you hadn't had sex and a slut if you had. There needed to be a middle ground where people who actually liked sex could spend their time doing it as much as they wanted.”
― Laura Greenwood, The Platypus and Her Wolves

“She wasn't a prude. Not really. She liked sex a lot. More now than she had ten minutes ago, to be perfectly honest.”
― Maisey Yates, Good Time Cowboy

“If your relationship doesn't make prudishness and promiscuity seem pointless, it has not yet reached the right level of sensual authenticity.”
― Lebo Grand