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Quotes

I’ve been on more laps than a napkin.

—Mae West

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

—Jonathan Swift, 1738

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

—Marlene Dietrich, 1962

Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.

—Saint Augustine, c. 387

There is no art without Eros. 

—Max Frisch, 1983

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

—Andy Warhol, 1975

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

—Michel Foucault, c. 1982

No woman needs intercourse; few women escape it.

—Andrea Dworkin, 1978

Love lasteth as long as the money endureth.

—William Caxton, 1476

Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.

—Quentin Crisp, 1968

I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.

—Zsa Zsa Gabor

Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

—Pablo Neruda, 1924

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

—Tacitus, c. 100