NUDITY

Related Subjects: Decency, Dress, Modesty

1. Naked came we into the world, and naked shall we depart from it.—AESOP, Fables
   

2. The nakedness of woman is the work of God.—BLAKE, Proverbs of Hell

3. Lives the man that can figure a naked Duke of Windlestraw addressing a naked House of Lords?—CARLYLE, Sartor Resartus
   

4. Her gentle limbs did she undress,
   And lay down in her loveliness.—COLERIDGE, Christabel
   

5. Nothing is so chaste as nudity. Venus herself, as she drops her garments and steps on to the model-throne, leaves behind her on the floor every weapon in her armory by which she can pierce to the grosser passions of man.—GEORGE DU MAURIER, Trilby
   

6. In naked beauty more adorn'd,
   More lovely, than Pandora.—MILTON, Paradise Lost
   

7. I always forget the interpretation the average member of the public puts on a nude. Nothing startles me more than when the Mayor and his aldermen representing various municipal galleries come to my studio to choose a picture, and they arrive all agog and begin lifting the curtains and peering into cubbyholes in the hope of seeing a naked girl.—C. R. W. NEVINSON
   

8. Without clothes, but with all her insides.—PLAUTUS, Pseudolus
   

9. With presented nakedness out-face
   The winds and persecutions of the sky.—SHAKESPEARE, King Lear
   

10. Othello: Naked in bed, Iago, and not mean harm!
    It is hypocrisy against the devil.—SHAKESPEARE, Othello