One may like the love and despise the lover.
—George Farquhar, 1706Quotes
A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
—Stendhal, 1822Once a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
—Tacitus, c. 100A maid that laughs is half taken.
—John Ray, 1670Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.
—Saint Augustine, c. 387No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
—Abraham LincolnThe best moment of love is when the lover leaves in the taxi.
—Michel Foucault, c. 1982Sex: in America, an obsession; in other parts of the world, a fact.
—Marlene Dietrich, 1962Sex is more exciting on the screen and between the pages than between the sheets.
—Andy Warhol, 1975Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
—Pablo Neruda, 1924Love is giving something you haven’t got to someone who doesn’t exist.
—Jacques LacanLord! I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
—Jonathan Swift, 1738No woman needs intercourse; few women escape it.
—Andrea Dworkin, 1978