1.
Aren't women prudes if they don't and prostitutes if they do?
Kate Millett
3.
When people say 'I'm not a prude, but ...' what they mean is 'I am a prude, and ...'.
John Cleese
4.
A prude is a person who thinks that his own rules of propriety are natural laws.
Robert A. Heinlein
5.
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
6.
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
7.
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
8.
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
9.
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
10.
Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.
Moliere
11.
There are no more thorough prudes than those who have some little secret to hide.
George Sand
12.
I'm actually totally the prude of my family.
Sue Naegle
13.
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
14.
I'll be honest: I was a super-late bloomer, and I was kind of a prude.
Pete Wentz
15.
Desponding Phyllis was endu'd
With ev'ry Talent of a Prude,
She trembled when a Man drew near;
Salute her, and she turn'd her Ear:
If o'er against her you were plac'd
She durst not look above your Waist
Jonathan Swift
17.
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. American's can be so prude sometimes.
Erin Wasson
18.
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
19.
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