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Quotes

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

—Andy Warhol, 1975

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

—Jonathan Swift, 1738

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

—Welsh proverb

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

—Marlene Dietrich, 1962

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

—Zsa Zsa Gabor

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

—Jacques Lacan

A maid that laughs is half taken.

—John Ray, 1670

Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.

—Quentin Crisp, 1968

One may like the love and despise the lover.

—George Farquhar, 1706

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

—Tacitus, c. 100

What reason weaves, by passion is undone.

—Alexander Pope, 1972

Love lasteth as long as the money endureth.

—William Caxton, 1476

No woman needs intercourse; few women escape it.

—Andrea Dworkin, 1978