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Quotes

I’ve been on more laps than a napkin.

—Mae West

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

—Andy Warhol, 1975

Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.

—Quentin Crisp, 1968

Love is giving something you haven’t got to someone who doesn’t exist. 

—Jacques Lacan

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

—Stendhal, 1822

A maid that laughs is half taken.

—John Ray, 1670

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

—Zsa Zsa Gabor

What reason weaves, by passion is undone.

—Alexander Pope, 1972

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

—Tacitus, c. 100

No woman needs intercourse; few women escape it.

—Andrea Dworkin, 1978

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

—Henry Kissinger, 1972

To love a woman who scorns you is to lick honey from a thorn.

—Welsh proverb

Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

—Pablo Neruda, 1924