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“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.”

Men War Faces Father Black Band Army Salvation Atheist Clubs Mask Skeletons Brass Salvation Army Black Face Brass Bands Ribald

Author:A. E. Coppard

“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.”

“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.”

Wells Ideas Sound Style Pure Approach Musical Handle Traditional Pope Abstraction Hectic Ribald

Author:Christian Wiman

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

People Lost Fun Wonder Late Newspapers Gaiety Uncouth Ribald

Author:Russell Baker

“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.”

Source: Catch-22: 50th Anniversary Edition

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

Morning Laughter Dignity Bored Boredom Hideous Audacious Ribald

Book:Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy

Source: Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy

“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.”

Source: The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson

“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.”

Men Writing Littles Book Funny Names Identity Humorous Rings Silly Pope Elegance Little Man Shelley Appropriateness Chaucer Silly Little Ribald

Author:James Joyce

“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.”

Ifs Humor Funny Spirit Night Gay Humorous Clubs Israel Iniquity Dens Night Club Ymca Ribald

Author:George Mikes