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Letter "I" » indecency
«The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.»
«Decency is indecency's conspiracy of silence»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Silence
| Keywords:
conspiracy, conspiracy of silence, decency, indecencies, indecency
«(During a trial in which she was accused of indecency on stage)Judge: 'Miss West, are you trying to show contempt for this court?'Mae West: 'On the contrary, your Honor, I was doin' my best to conceal it.'»
«Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them»
«Indecency, vulgarity, obscenity- these are strictly confined to man; he invented them. Among the higher animals there is no trace of them.»
«A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world as a public indecency.»
«Recite that which has been revealed to you of the Book and keep up prayer; surely prayer keeps (one) away from indecency and evil, and certainly the remembrance of Allah is the greatest, and Allah knows what you do. (The Spider 29.45)»
Author: quran
| About:
Religion
| Keywords:
Allah, indecencies, indecency, prayer book, recite, recited, recites, reciting, remembrance, spider, The Spider
«No greater felicity can genius attain than that of having purified intellectual pleasure, separated mirth from indecency, and wit from licentiousness»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
felicity, indecencies, indecency, licentiousness, purified
«Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Conversation
| Keywords:
affectation, affectations, indecencies, indecency, novel, scurrility, wittiest, witty
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