Ribald Quotes:

Newspaper people, once celebrated as founts of ribald humor and uncouth fun, have of late lost all their gaiety, and small wonder.

- Russell Baker

topic: Fun, People, Ribald, Uncouth, Gaiety

Between the years of ninety-two and a hundred and two, however, we shall be the ribald, useless, drunken, outcast person we have always wished to be. We shall have a long white beard and long white hair; we shall not walk at all, but recline in a wheel chair and bellow for alcoholic beverages; in the winter we shall sit before the fire with our feet in a bucket of hot water, a decanter of corn whiskey near at hand, and write ribald songs against organized society... We look forward to a disreputable, vigorous, unhonoured, and disorderly old age.

- Don Marquis

source: "Modern Essays" edited by Christopher Morley, ("The Almost Perfect State"), 1921.

topic: Song, Writing, Winter, Ribald, White Hair

Audacious ribald: your laughter will finish in hideous boredom before morning.

- George Bernard Shaw

source: George Bernard Shaw (2012). “Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy”, p.170, The Floating Press

topic: Morning, Laughter, Boredom, Ribald, Hideous

I shall write a book some day about the appropriateness of names. Geoffrey Chaucer has a ribald ring, as is proper and correct, and Alexander Pope was inevitably Alexander Pope. Colley Cibber was a silly little man without much elegance and Shelley was very Percy and very Bysshe.

- James Joyce

topic: Funny, Humorous, Silly, Chaucer, Little Man

He found Luciana sitting alone at a table in the Allied officers' night club, where the drunken Anzac major who had brought her there had been stupid enough to desert her for the ribald company of some singing comrades at the bar. "All right, I'll dance with you," she said, before Yossarian could even speak. "But I won't let you sleep with me." "Who asked you?" Yossarian asked her. "You don't want to sleep with me?" she exclaimed with surprise. "I don't want to dance with you.

- Joseph Heller

topic: Stupid, Sleep, Night, Want To Sleep, Ribald

The stage, the screen, the novel, casual conversation, the street discussion, and too often the fireside intimacies are punctuated with blasphemy, to which may be added, as of the same nature, coarse, ribald jokes, foul stories, and low small talk. Some would have us believe that profanity is a sign of masculinity and emotion maturity.

- Ezra Taft Benson

source: Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

topic: Believe, Maturity, Stories, Coarse, Ribald

If it is gay, ribald and lascivious night-life you are after, Israel is not the place for you. The night clubs you do find are nearer in spirit to a YMCA than to dens of iniquity.

- George Mikes

topic: Humorous, Gay, Night, Iniquity, Ymca

Mandelstam's style is not singular. He could be stately and traditional, ribald and funny, hectic, elegiac. He could handle abstractions and ideas as well as Pope or Browning but then be so musical that other poems approach pure sound.

- Christian Wiman

source: Source: bigthink.com

topic: Ribald

Father was an atheist; he had even joined the Skeleton Army - a club of men who went about in masks or black faces, with ribald placards and a brass band, to make war upon the Salvation Army.

- A. E. Coppard

topic: Atheist, Father, War, Ribald, Black Face