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But I could never make a judgement that something was obscene. — Damien Hirst

...a leering, sneering obscene little harpy... — Virginia Woolf

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

Slang in a woman's mouth is not obscene, it only sounds so. — Mark Twain

People are like M&Ms. They come in a variety of colors, they're hard on the outside, and full of obscene yumminess on the inside. — Michael Makai

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

Manto had earlier been prosecuted in Lahore for obscenity, and one of the words alleged to have been obscene was, breasts — Saadat Hasan Manto

The intensity with which he stared at me bordered on obscene. — C.J. Roberts

A device in the arm of his chair made an obscene noise. The murals on the chair suggested disturbing things being done to some briefly unlucky beings. — Christina Engela

I'm tellin' ya I get no respect. When I was in Switzerland, I got an obscene yodel. — Rodney Dangerfield

There's nothing so obscene and depressing as an American Christmas. — Edward Abbey

Opening her mouth to take a bite seemed forward. Chewing? Obscene. Mutual mastication was out of the question. — Thomm Quackenbush

That is the nature of the obscene: a truth so honest it must be guarded, for it holds a revelation of purity that is deadly to mankind. — K.I. Hope

Mr Melly had to be obscene to be believed — Quentin Crisp

The problem is that censors create the concept of obscenity. By supposedly trying to protect us they form an absurd concept of what is obscene. — Catherine Breillat

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

I think it is obscene that we should believe that we are entitled to end somebody's life, no matter what that person has supposedly done or not done. — Richard Attenborough

...explaining men still assume I am, in some sort of obscene impregnation metaphor, an empty vessel to be filled with their wisdom and knowledge. — Rebecca Solnit

How ravished one could be without ever being touched. Ravished by dead words become obscene and dead ideas become obsessions. — D.H. Lawrence

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

Anastasia, I earn roughly one hundred thousand dollars an hour. My mouth drops open. That is an obscene amount of money. — E.L. James

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

When he laughed in his throat, the butterfly laughed at me too. It's obscene fluttering corrupted me into darkness. — Kazuya Minekura

Medication without explanation is obscene. — Toni Cade Bambara

It's hilarious to me that by writing an obscene fake children's book I am mistaken for a parenting expert. — Adam Mansbach

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

All phone calls are obscene. — Karen Elizabeth Gordon

The allegation of some progressives that America is an evil empire is not simply wrong - it is obscene. — Dinesh D'Souza

Women should be obscene, not heard. — Groucho Marx

War technology is science in the service of obscene anatomical vandalism. — Stan Goff

The idea that her death should precede his was worse than intolerable, it was obscene. — Joe Hill

Art can't decide whether the War on Drugs is an obscene absurdity or an absurd obscenity. In either case, it's a tragic, bloody farce. — Don Winslow

The multiplication of our kind borders on the obscene; the duty to love them, on the preposterous. — Emil Cioran

Alas, love turns the human heart into a mildewed garden, a lush and shameless garden in which grow mysterious, obscene toadstools. — Knut Hamsun

Women should be obscene and not heard. — Groucho Marx

He looks sleepy and obscene; I want to slap him and wrap my arms and legs around him and breathe his air ... - Sparrow — Willow Aster

Only ugliness is obscene. — Mary Quant

Early Menstruation renders the Uteri Hard & dry; so that they ought not to prompt the early appearance by obscene books, and frequent touchings. — Jill Lepore

Tonight is when the obscene becomes the acceptable. — Laura Wiess

Delicacy - a sad, sad false delicacy - robs literature of the two best things among its belongings: Family-circle narratives & obscene stories. — Mark Twain

There was something obscene about a billionaire's being optimistic and aggressive and cunning. — Kurt Vonnegut

I pass by that it is very culpable to be facetious in obscene and smutty matters. — Isaac Barrow

The world of the living was obscene. I was powerless to do anything. — Haruki Murakami

He smirked, his lids lowering to half-mast. Twinkling, hot-lava, sexy cake, sex-on-a-stick, obscene levels of charisma. — Penny Reid

Though not invariably the worst choice, war is always an obscene horror. — Ellen Glasgow

We teach our boys to firebomb villages, but we won't let them write fuck on the side of their planes because it's obscene. — Francis Ford Coppola

It's only when the ghastly mob-sleep, the dream helplessness of the mass psyche overcomes him, that he becomes completely base and obscene — D.H. Lawrence

The skin of my character in 'The Man Who Fell to Earth' was some concoction, a spermatozoon of an alien nature that was obscene and weird-looking. — David Bowie

The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame. — Thomas Hobbes

The word obscene can be thought of as meaning "out of the scene" or "offstage."7 — Gene Edward Veith Jr.

Everybody says sex is obscene. The only true obscenity is war. — Henry Miller

When the commission finds that a pig has entered the parlor, the exercise of its regulatory power does not depend on proof that the pig is obscene. — John Paul Stevens

The world is full of angry, pathological individuals pushing pieces of paper with obscene messages under doors. — Azar Nafisi

No one has called any of my pictures obscene ever but I have been constantly blamed for an even greater sin - the ugliness.
[Vincent Van Gogh] — Irving Stone

Really, really obscene hip-hop. I love it so much. It makes me laugh and then it makes me want to dance. — Natalie Portman

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Before, I'd photograph anything. I didn't think there was anything more or less obscene about any part of the body. — Jock Sturges

I don't think there's one thing I've ever said on the radio that would have been found indecent or obscene. — Howard Stern

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

and collarbone that Augustus had seen. It wasn't obscene — John Green

The coming together of people I find obscene as a principle. It is not human. It is not a natural thing as some people would have us believe. — David Bowie

The only thing that is obscene is censorship. — Craig Bruce

It is morally obscene to regard wealth as an anonymous, tribal product and to talk about 'redistributing' it. — Ayn Rand

Everyone likes the obscene; that is real life. — Christina Stead

It is a notably obscene crime of our language that educate is not an intransitive verb. — Benjamin Hale

In the end, postmodern art is obscene not because it is offensive, but because it is boring. — Gregory Benford

Paunch lapping at his belt like a pale tongue, peeping out from beneath the fabric of his golf shirt, hairy and somehow obscene. He was — John Connolly

Nothing is more obscene to me than the glorification of suffering. — Marty Rubin

But you could control her." "Of course. I've got the oldest power of all - an obscene amount of money. — Kami Garcia

If the human body's obscene, complain to the manufacturer, not me. — Larry Flynt

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

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

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

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

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

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