A Quote by Stendhal

Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.

Stendhal

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Stendhal
French - Writer
January 23, 1783 - March 23, 1842

Be niggards of advice on no pretense; For the worst avarice is that of sense.

Alexander Pope

Prudery is ignorance.

Oliver Goldsmith

Whatever thrift is, it is not avarice. Avarice is not generous; and, after all, it is the thrifty people who are generous.

Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery

It is not the nature of avarice to be satisfied with anything but money. Every passion that acts upon mankind has a peculiar mode of operation. Many of them are temporary and fluctuating; they admit of cessation and variety. But avarice is a fixed, uniform passion.

Thomas Paine

Stupidity is a fact of life, but unmentionable. The new Prudery.

Mason Cooley

Germany is the country where action films perform the worst. It's the worst market in the world for these kind of movies.

Til Schweiger

I'm a worst-case scenario person. I'm only interested in a story because I kind of go, like a magnet, to the worst thing that can happen.

John Irving

Passions often produce their contraries: avarice sometimes leads to prodigality, and prodigality to avarice; we are often obstinate through weakness and daring through timidity.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

That prudery which survives youth and beauty resembles a scarecrow left in the fields after harvest.

Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

Prudery is often immodestly modest; its habit is to multiply sentinels in proportion as the fortress is less threatened.

George D. Prentice

The passions do very often give birth to others of a nature most contrary to their own. Thus avarice sometimes brings forth prodigality, and prodigality avarice; a man's resolution is very often the effect of levity, and his boldness that of cowardice and fear.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The kind of poetry to avoid in the pretty-pretty kind that pleased our grandmothers, the kind that Longfellow and Tennyson, good poets at their best, wrote at their worst.

Clifton Fadiman

What 'jazz' means to me is the worst kind of working conditions, the worst in cultural prejudice. The term 'jazz' has come to mean the abuse and exploitation of black musicians.

Maxim Gorky

It is the history of our kindnesses that alone make this world tolerable. If it were not for that, for the effect of kind words, kind looks, kind letters . . . I should be inclined to think our life a practical jest in the worst possible spirit.