Quotes About Indecency

Gestures which delight in the right person are so indecent when performed by the wrong. In fact, it is only when we contemplate the loves of unpleasant people that we see the indecency of passion.

Death is a kind of nakedness, a kind of indecency, a kind of faux pas. Unless we have known the dead person well enough to experience true loss, or unless we have wronged the dead person enough to experience guilt, the only emotion we can experience is embarrassment.

To make matters worse, he added in a deep voice that made her shiver, I love turnips. It was indecent that the man could make a sentence as abhorrent as I love turnips sound like an improper proposition. But Dougal MacLean managed it.

Neither the state guards nor the municipal police stopped me. What they saw going by was no longer a man but the curious product of misfortune, something to which laws could not be applied. I had exceeded the bounds of indecency.

As a society, there are times when we need to stand together against indecency and cruelty.

I don't see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes.

Couldn't you give me one small smoke? I'm dying to smoke. And I haven't a cent to buy them. "Blessed are the poor. … Poverty's no crime," as they say—but sheer indecency.

It isn't the evil and indecent who are flung down into the depths, no! Oh, no! The evil and decisive fling down those who are moral, honest and noble but maladroit, hesitant and full of scruples.

It all depended on what Walter decided. If - if he really did care about Rose Barum, she wouldn't stand in his way. It was so glaringly indecent to hold on to one's husband if he wanted someone else. The trouble was that she didn't know what Walter did want, and this was one of those questions you really couldn't ask.

The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.

He longed for smut, but heard little and contributed less, and his chief indecencies were solitary.

What I am unable to understand with the people who associate themselves with Trump is their willingness to overlook the dishonesty, the indecency, the lack of empathy, to be asked to go out every single day and why.

Old age likes indecency. It's a sign of life.

One can feel one's garbage of mind smell, from its indecent words since, within its reality, such ones have a lack of beauty and quality of character.

I don't think there's one thing I've ever said on the radio that would have been found indecent or obscene.

to scream as he pushed down his pants and exposed his cock in front of everyone inside the tent.

Decency cannot be discussed without indecency!

The child molester skipped breakfast, but said he'd grab a little something on the way to work.

I hope, as he assures me, he was not guilty of Indecency; but have Reason to bless God, who, by disabling me in my Faculties, enabled me to preserve my Innocence; and when all my Strength would have signified nothing, magnified himself in my Weakness.

Ah, you think that anything naked must be indecent; even truth.

I equate love (bodies touching indecently) to the limitlessness of being – to nausea, to the sun, and to death. —Georges Bataille, from "La Scissiparié," Oeuvres Completes III . (Editions Flammarion July 27, 1984) Originally published in Les Cahiers de la Pléiade, Spring 1949.

Nail up some indecency in plain sight over your door; from that time forward you will be rid of all respectable people,the most insupportable folk God has created.

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Jeremiah is a most melancholy prophet. He wails from beginning to end; he is often childish, is rarely indecent, and although it may be blasphemy to say so, he and his 'Lamentations' are really not worth reading.