Robert A. Heinlein
Science Fiction Author
"A prude is a person who thinks that his own rules of propriety are natural laws."
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Prudes
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Bertrand Russell
Philosopher, Mathematician
"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."
George Sand
Novelist, Memoirist
"There are no more thorough prudes than those who have some little secret to hide."
Moliere
Playwright, Actor
"Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty."
Jonathan Swift
Satirist, Writer
"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"
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"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!"
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