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I'm certainly not a prude. -- Kim Cattrall
I'm actually totally the prude of my family. -- Sue Naegle
Aren't women prudes if they don't and prostitutes if they do? -- Kate Millett
I'll be honest: I was a super-late bloomer, and I was kind of a prude. -- Pete Wentz
A prude is a person who thinks that his own rules of propriety are natural laws. -- Robert A. Heinlein
When people say 'I'm not a prude, but ...' what they mean is 'I am a prude, and ...'. -- John Cleese
Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty. -- Moliere
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 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
I have always been kind of a prude. But kissing is harmless to me, and sometimes a kiss can tell if it's even worth seeing that person again! -- Whitney Port
I hate the man who builds his name On ruins of another's fame. Thus prudes, by characters o'erthrown, Imagine that they raise their own. Thus Scribblers, covetous of praise, Think slander can transplant the bays. -- John Gay
What was exciting in the Victorian Age, would leave a man of franker epoch quite unmoved. The more prudes restrict the permissible degree of sexual appeal, the less is required to make such an appeal effective. -- Bertrand Russell
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
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
I never quite got the hang of the getting drunk & fondling the thighs [of all the cumbersome young males] business... whether that makes me a gallant & proper gentleman, a cowardly wuss or an unadventurous prude, I cannot make out -- Stephen Fry
Australia objects to the mini-skirt not on moral but on economic grounds. Australians are no prudes and the lovely, healthy, sporty Australian girls have no reason to hide their knees and thighs. However, the mini-skirt is disastrous for the wool-trade. -- George Mikes
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 tale of scandal is as fatal to the credit of a prudent lady as a fever is generally to those of the strongest constitutions. But there is a sort of puny, sickly reputation, that is always ailing, yet will wither the robuster characters of a hundred prudes. -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan
It is an old trick. The playgoer who does not like dirty plays is denounced as a prude; the music-lover who resents cacophony is told he is a pedant; and in all these matters the final crushing blow administered to the man of discrimination is the ascription to him of a hidebound prejudice against things that are new because they are new. -- Royal Cortissoz
Are you a prude?' He seemed genuinely curious. 'No!' But after a second, I said, 'But may be compared to you, yes! I like my privacy. I get to decide who sees me naked. Do you get my point?' 'Yes. Objectively speaking, you have beautiful points.' I thought the top of my head would pop off... (Sookie Stackhouse & Claude, Dead in the Family) -- Charlaine Harris
Oh, Al, shut up! Stop criticizing me! First I'm criticized for being a prude and sounding like a social worker or something, then I'm criticized for looking like a cheap broad. How am I supposed to live? Under the water or something, coming up only to say 'I beg your pardon if I disturb you by coming up for air. I'll do my best to remain submerged.' -- Pamela Moore
There are no more thorough prudes than those who have some little secret to hide. -- George Sand
On the inside, the copycats of the ruffians are more delicate than the copycats of prudes. -- Criss Jami
As a girl, I was always told I was nasty or dirty if I was sexual in any way. Americans are such prudes. -- Jessica Alba

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