Archive

Quotes

Love lasteth as long as the money endureth.

—William Caxton, 1476

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

—Tacitus, c. 100

One may like the love and despise the lover.

—George Farquhar, 1706

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

—Abraham Lincoln

I’ve been on more laps than a napkin.

—Mae West

A maid that laughs is half taken.

—John Ray, 1670

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

Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.

—Quentin Crisp, 1968

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

—Marlene Dietrich, 1962

What reason weaves, by passion is undone.

—Alexander Pope, 1972

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

—Jonathan Swift, 1738

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

—Stendhal, 1822