Most Obscene Quotes

There is in fact something obscene and sinister about photography, a desire to imprison, to incorporate, a sexual intensity of pursuit. — William S. Burroughs

I vote Democrat because I believe oil companies profits of 4% on a gallon of gas are obscene, but the government taxing the same gallon at 15% isn't. — David Letterman

Nothing that is expressed is obscene. What is obscene is what is hidden. — Nagisa Oshima

I never minded George Steinbrenner spending obscene amounts of money to put the best product on the field. — Jay Mohr

I love Colorado. The mountains are so passionate. They just make me want to run to the top and yell obscene things to the valleys below." ~ Ardith — Jocelyn Davies

Tell me: what's more obscene than fucking waste?
Death is in quite poor taste, if you ask me. — Eleanor Brown

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 French translation of 'a black hole has no hair' is so obscene that French publishers resisted it vigorously, to no avail. — Kip S. Thorne

Medication without explanation is obscene. — Toni Cade Bambara

The utmost extremity of degradation is the obscene merriment to which it gives rise. — Victor Hugo

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