Sex: in America, an obsession; in other parts of the world, a fact.
—Marlene Dietrich, 1962
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A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
—Stendhal, 1822Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.
—Saint Augustine, c. 387Love is giving something you haven’t got to someone who doesn’t exist.
—Jacques LacanThe best moment of love is when the lover leaves in the taxi.
—Michel Foucault, c. 1982A maid that laughs is half taken.
—John Ray, 1670One may like the love and despise the lover.
—George Farquhar, 1706Once a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
—Tacitus, c. 100