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The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | H L Mencken |

As to Don Juan, confess that it is the sublime of that there sort of writing; it may be bawdy, but is it not good English? It may be profligate, but is it not life, is it not the thing? Could any man have written it who has not lived in the world? and tooled in a post-chaise? in a hackney coach? in a Gondola? against a wall? in a court carriage? in a vis a vis? on a table? and under it?

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | George (Lord) Byron |

It's only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdy that you can get tenderness.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Lawrence Durrell |

Susanna's music touched the bawdy strings Of those white elders; but, escaping,...

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Wallace Stevens |