
To me, the
most obscene word in our language is celibacy. —
Robert Green Ingersoll

Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads. —
Georg C. Lichtenberg

What are you doing now, you lazy drunken obscene unsayable son of an unnameable unmarried gipsy obscenity? What are you doing? —
Ernest Hemingway,

As if keening on your knees
were somehow obscene
As if there were a control
so marvelous
you could teach it
to eat pain. —
Maggie Nelson

Guilt is the cause of more marauders
than history's
most obscene disauders —
E. E. Cummings

I strain to hear, but my old ears, for all their obscene hugeness, pick up nothing but snippets: —
Sara Gruen

Commercial rock 'n' roll music is a brutalization of the stream of contemporary Negro church music an obscene looting of a cultural expression. —
Ralph Ellison

The pay of many of our top executives in big hundred companies in the U.K. is outrageous and even obscene. —
Justin Welby

Stinky says women should be obscene but not heard. —
Robert A. Heinlein

That I ever think for one minute that I should ever feel lonely is obscene and unreasonable. —
Andrew W.K.

Christian art, like obscene art, is surface level. —
Anonymous

The
most obscene symbol in human history is the Cross; yet in its ugliness it remains the most eloquent testimony to human dignity. —
R.C. Sproul

Vulgar and obscene, the papers run rumors daily about people in show business, tales of wicked ways and witless affairs. —
Carroll O'Connor

Natural beauty is essentially temporary and sad, hence the impression of obscene mockery which artificial flowers give us. —
John Updike

How can my ankles and arms be obscene? —
Libba Bray

We like it wet and we like it green, and we are the ones that they call obscene. —
Sai Marie Johnson

Art is amoral; so is life. For me there are no obscene pictures or books; there are only poorly conceived and poorly executed ones. —
Irving Stone

Bush already gave obscene tax breaks to people like me and Warren Buffet, and we are saying it's not fair. —
Adam McKay

Sex and obscenity are not synonymous. Obscene material is material which deals with sex in a manner appealing to prurient interest. —
William J. Brennan Jr.

It's considered totally obscene to make any request to God, because if he doesn't know, what's the point asking him? —
Sadhguru

Only the chaste are truly obscene. —
Joris-Karl Huysmans

What might be merely embarrassing in real life is made obscene and hostile by TV. —
Ben Fountain

Terms such as obscene are used swiftly in order to protect people from exposure to the truth. —
Thomas Hirschhorn

Success-minded people must understand that the use of profane and obscene words have no place in their vocabulary. —
John Patrick Hickey

In the NUDE, all that is not beautiful is obscene. —
Robert Bresson

I don't care if you're obscene, filthy, horrendous
as long as you're honest. —
Bill Hicks