Prudery is ignorance. [ Goldsmith ]

Prudery is the hypocrisy of modesty. [ Massias ]

Over-niceness may be under-niceness. [ Richardson ]

Prudery is the caricature of modesty. [ Lingree ]

Prudery is the bastard child of virtue. [ Ouida ]

Prudery is often the mantle chosen to conceal triumphant vice.

There are no greater prudes than those women who have some secret to hide. [ George Sand ]

Prudery is the innocence of the vicious - external sanctity, assumed as a cover for internal laxity. [ Chatfield ]

That prudery which survives youth and beauty resembles a scarecrow left in the fields after harvest. [ J. Petit-Senn ]

Prudery is often immodestly modest; its habit is to multiply sentinels in proportion as the fortress is less threatened. [ G. D. Prentice ]