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Quotes

Once a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.

—Tacitus, c. 100

A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.

—Stendhal, 1822

Lord! I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.

—Jonathan Swift, 1738

Love lasteth as long as the money endureth.

—William Caxton, 1476

Sex: in America, an obsession; in other parts of the world, a fact.

—Marlene Dietrich, 1962

Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.

—Quentin Crisp, 1968

No woman needs intercourse; few women escape it.

—Andrea Dworkin, 1978

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens. 

—Abraham Lincoln

Sex is more exciting on the screen and between the pages than between the sheets. 

—Andy Warhol, 1975

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

—Henry Kissinger, 1972

A maid that laughs is half taken.

—John Ray, 1670

The best moment of love is when the lover leaves in the taxi.

—Michel Foucault, c. 1982

What reason weaves, by passion is undone.

—Alexander Pope, 1972