One may like the love and despise the lover.
—George Farquhar, 1706No woman needs intercourse; few women escape it.
—Andrea Dworkin, 1978A maid that laughs is half taken.
—John Ray, 1670Lord! I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
—Jonathan Swift, 1738Sex: in America, an obsession; in other parts of the world, a fact.
—Marlene Dietrich, 1962Sex is more exciting on the screen and between the pages than between the sheets.
—Andy Warhol, 1975Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
—Quentin Crisp, 1968A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
—Stendhal, 1822No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
—Abraham LincolnOnce a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
—Tacitus, c. 100Love lasteth as long as the money endureth.
—William Caxton, 1476Love 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. 1982I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
—Zsa Zsa GaborLove is so short, forgetting is so long.
—Pablo Neruda, 1924Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.
—Saint Augustine, c. 387There is no art without Eros.
—Max Frisch, 1983What reason weaves, by passion is undone.
—Alexander Pope, 1972Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
—Henry Kissinger, 1972To love a woman who scorns you is to lick honey from a thorn.
—Welsh proverbI’ve been on more laps than a napkin.
—Mae West