C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.
Prudery
Prudery is the bastard child of virtue.
Prudery is the hypocrisy of modesty.
Prudery is ignorance.
Over-niceness may be under-niceness.
Some women don buckler and spear to fight dragons which have no existence.
There are no greater prudes than those women who have some secret to hide.
Prudery is the innocence of the vicious—external sanctity, assumed as a cover for internal laxity.
Prudery is often immodestly modest; its habit is to multiply sentinels in proportion as the fortress is less threatened.
That prudery which survives youth and beauty resembles a scarecrow left in the fields after harvest.
A jest that makes a virtuous woman only smile often frightens away a prude; but when real danger forces the former to flee, the latter advances.