"Obscenity" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... applied to his face, it was wisely announced that for the future the Deity should be covered by a cloud. These plays, carried about the country, taken up by the baser sort of people, descended through all degrees of farce to obscenity, and, in England, becoming entangled in politics, at length disappeared. It is said they linger in Italy, and are ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. IV, No. 22, Aug., 1859 • Various
... there in which the gentle words of love are never heard; in which the tender graces of a Christian heart are never unfolded; in which a prayer is never uttered! How many fathers are there whose lips are black with profanity and foul with obscenity, and whose lives are mean and unwholesome! How many mothers are there whose tongues are nimble with scandal and bitter with scolding, and whose brains are busy with vanities and jealousies! Ah! ...
— Lessons in Life - A Series of Familiar Essays • Timothy Titcomb
... a piece. We have heard of the parlour-maid who fainted because the dining-table had 'ceder legs,' but never before that a 'switching' was 'obscene.' We do not envy the unwholesomeness of a mind so watchful for obscenity. ...
— Tracks of a Rolling Stone • Henry J. Coke
... so striking in any of its excellences; their lines are always a little blurred. Still, it shows that ten years before Clinker, Smollett had learned to combine the contradictory elements of life in something like their right proportions. If obscenity and ferocity are found in his fourth novel, they are no longer found in ...
— The Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves • Tobias Smollett
... in the world seems to suggest obscenity to you. You're always looking for it and always finding it—you don't seem ...
— Love's Pilgrimage • Upton Sinclair
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