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...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
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
Manto had earlier been prosecuted in Lahore for obscenity, and one of the words alleged to have been obscene was, breasts
— Saadat Hasan Manto
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
Opening her mouth to take a bite seemed forward. Chewing? Obscene. Mutual mastication was out of the question.
— Thomm Quackenbush
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
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
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
The multiplication of our kind borders on the obscene; the duty to love them, on the preposterous.
— Emil Cioran
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
Tonight is when the obscene becomes the acceptable.
— Laura Wiess
There was something obscene about a billionaire's being optimistic and aggressive and cunning.
— Kurt Vonnegut
The world of the living was obscene. I was powerless to do anything.
— Haruki Murakami
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 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.
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
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
As if keening on your kneeswere 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.
Only the chaste are truly obscene.
— Joris-Karl Huysmans
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
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 only thing that is obscene is censorship.
— Craig Bruce
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
But you could control her." "Of course. I've got the oldest power of all - an obscene amount of money.
— Kami Garcia
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
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
