A Quote by Joris-Karl Huysmans

Only the chaste are truly obscene.

Joris-Karl Huysmans

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Joris-Karl Huysmans
French - Novelist
February 5, 1848 - May 12, 1907

It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great.

Havelock Ellis

Only the chaste man and the chaste woman are capable of true love.

Pope John Paul II

She only is chaste, who is chaste where there is no danger of detection: she who does not, because she may not, does.

Ovid

I imagine like most of us that I'd like obscene amounts of money but the people I met and worked with who have those obscene amounts of money and have obscene amounts of fame have awful lives. Really. I mean hideously compromised lives.

Jason Isaacs

Nothing that is expressed is obscene. What is obscene is what is hidden.

Nagisa Oshima

Perhaps there is such a thing as obscene sex, but I know that violence is always obscene. So I don't get it, that you can disembowel a woman but you can't see her tits. Who made that up? That's sick!

William H. Macy

The most chaste woman may be the most voluptuous, if she truly loves.

Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau

Frequent not the company of immodest persons, especially if they be also impudent, as is generally the case; ...these corrupted souls and infected hearts scarcely speak to any, either of the same or a different sex, without causing them to fall in some degree from purity; they have poison in their eyes and in their breath, like basilisks. On the contrary, keep company with the chaste and virtuous; often meditate upon and read holy things; for the word of God is chaste, and makes those also chaste that delight in it.

Saint Francis de Sales

The basic problem is for a congressman or a president to get elected, they need obscene amounts of money. And the only place you can get obscene amounts of money is from Wall Street and the big corporations who benefit from shipping our jobs and our factories overseas - that's the fundamental political problem.

Peter Navarro

I would never use obscene language in the office. Certainly not. I kept my obscene language for the home, where it belongs.

Harold Pinter

The fashion industry certainly has its obscene sides. The cost of a coat can be obscene. So can the cost of a photo shoot if you're working with a really good photographer.

Carine Roitfeld

It is not pornography that is obscene, it is hunger that is obscene.

Jose Saramago

The vocabulary of an omniscient man would embrace words and images excluded from polite conversation. What would be base, or even obscene, to the obscene, becomes illustrious, spoken in a new connexion of thought.