Patrick deWitt Quotes

I don't even like watching sex scenes in movies. I have a slight prudish side to me.

I'm prudish.

No padlocks, bolts, or bars can secure a maiden better than her own reserve.

Journalists ask me, 'Why don't you ever talk about sex in your performances?' True, I don't talk about sex - not in my personal life and not in my professional life. This is modesty.

My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language.

I've stayed away from sexy roles. It's never interested me.

I would never describe Charlotte as a prude - maybe at the start, but that was in comparison to the other girls. She wasn't willing to do the stuff they were doing - and I mean, thank goodness!

In my day, people didn't do nude scenes. I mean they didn't exist.

A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.

Modesty used to be considered a natural female attribute. No more.

Yes, I was correctly quoted in saying I introduced sex into films in the 20's, but it was sex in good taste and left a great deal to one's imagination.

An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.

Blushing is the color of virtue.

In Ski Party we are reading up on how to have fun without sex. That was the theme of every AIP picture!

Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.

It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.

I've managed to keep my clothes on for everything I've done so far.

I'm actually totally the prude of my family.

There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.

Ladies, just a little more virginity, if you don't mind.

Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.

I do like the idea of women not showing too much, of them being quite reserved in a way, and quite covered.

I don't think I ever will do a sex scene because of my religion and my personal standards.

Puritans should wear fig leaves on their eyes.

Private matters should be dealt with privately, out of respect for everybody concerned