Indecency Quotes

“Neither the state guards nor the municipal police stopped me. What they saw going by was no longer a man but the curious product of misfortune, something to which laws could not be applied. I had exceeded the bounds of indecency.”
― Jean Genet, The Thief's Journal

“...the restaurant itself is weird especially because of a big raunch mad thicklipped sloppy young Fillipino woman sitting alone at the end of the restaurant gobbling up her food obscenely and looking at us insolently as tho to say "Fuck you, I eat the way I like splashing gravy everywhere (p. 156)”
― Jack Kerouac

“There is really nothing more unattractive than the sight of a young woman displaying a repulsive amount of arm.”
― Caroline Blackwood, Great Granny Webster

“There are people on whom even clean linen looks indecent.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Demons

“But to betray her with battalion... That is against decency, against Nature...And for him, Christopher tietjens, to come down to the level of the men you met here!”
― Ford Madox Ford, No More Parades

“He was an indecent man, I told myself - prayerfully - and then I prayed for him to become decent.”
― Kelsey Brickl, Paint

“Poverty is not necessarily a sign of laziness or imbecility. Sensitivity to indecency and being a victim of unfortunate unforeseen events also contribute.”
― Vincent Okay Nwachukwu, Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1