Archive

Quotes

There is no art without Eros. 

—Max Frisch, 1983

A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.

—Stendhal, 1822

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

—Marlene Dietrich, 1962

Love lasteth as long as the money endureth.

—William Caxton, 1476

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

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

—Tacitus, c. 100

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

—Henry Kissinger, 1972
  •