Aren't women prudes if they don't and prostitutes if they do?
I'll be honest: I was a super-late bloomer, and I was kind of a prude.
I mean, I'll say the filthiest things in the world, but when it comes down to it, I'm kind of a prude.
There are no more thorough prudes than those who have some little secret to hide.
I'm certainly not a prude.
Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.
Holmes, I'm a 24 year old prude.
When people say 'I'm not a prude, but ...' what they mean is 'I am a prude, and ...'.
I'm actually totally the prude of my family.
My mum certainly isn't a prude, nor is my brother, so I think I'm lucky to have a family like that.
What was exciting in the Victorian Age, would leave a man of franker epoch quite unmoved. The more prudes restrict the permissible degree of sexual appeal, the less is required to make such an appeal effective.
Desponding Phyllis was endu'd With ev'ry Talent of a Prude, She trembled when a Man drew near; Salute her, and she turn'd her Ear: If o'er against her you were plac'd She durst not look above your Waist
A prude is a person who thinks that his own rules of propriety are natural laws.