A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
—Stendhal, 1822
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Sex: in America, an obsession; in other parts of the world, a fact.
—Marlene Dietrich, 1962There is no art without Eros.
—Max Frisch, 1983Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
—Quentin Crisp, 1968No woman needs intercourse; few women escape it.
—Andrea Dworkin, 1978One may like the love and despise the lover.
—George Farquhar, 1706What reason weaves, by passion is undone.
—Alexander Pope, 1972The best moment of love is when the lover leaves in the taxi.
—Michel Foucault, c. 1982Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.
—Saint Augustine, c. 387I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
—Zsa Zsa GaborOnce a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
—Tacitus, c. 100Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
—Henry Kissinger, 1972Love is giving something you haven’t got to someone who doesn’t exist.
—Jacques Lacan