Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
—Quentin Crisp, 1968
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Lord! I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
—Jonathan Swift, 1738A maid that laughs is half taken.
—John Ray, 1670No woman needs intercourse; few women escape it.
—Andrea Dworkin, 1978A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
—Stendhal, 1822What reason weaves, by passion is undone.
—Alexander Pope, 1972Sex: in America, an obsession; in other parts of the world, a fact.
—Marlene Dietrich, 1962Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
—Henry Kissinger, 1972There is no art without Eros.
—Max Frisch, 1983Love is giving something you haven’t got to someone who doesn’t exist.
—Jacques LacanTo love a woman who scorns you is to lick honey from a thorn.
—Welsh proverbThe best moment of love is when the lover leaves in the taxi.
—Michel Foucault, c. 1982Sex is more exciting on the screen and between the pages than between the sheets.
—Andy Warhol, 1975