Sex is more exciting on the screen and between the pages than between the sheets.
—Andy Warhol, 1975
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Lord! I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
—Jonathan Swift, 1738To love a woman who scorns you is to lick honey from a thorn.
—Welsh proverbSex: in America, an obsession; in other parts of the world, a fact.
—Marlene Dietrich, 1962I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
—Zsa Zsa GaborLove is giving something you haven’t got to someone who doesn’t exist.
—Jacques LacanA maid that laughs is half taken.
—John Ray, 1670Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
—Quentin Crisp, 1968One may like the love and despise the lover.
—George Farquhar, 1706Once a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
—Tacitus, c. 100What reason weaves, by passion is undone.
—Alexander Pope, 1972Love lasteth as long as the money endureth.
—William Caxton, 1476No woman needs intercourse; few women escape it.
—Andrea Dworkin, 1978