Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.
—Kate Moss, 2009Quotes
Your body is the church where nature asks to be reverenced.
—Marquis de Sade, 1797All God’s children are not beautiful. Most of God’s children are, in fact, barely presentable.
—Fran Lebowitz, 1978Flesh was the reason why oil painting was invented.
—Willem de Kooning, 1949The enlightened man says: I am body entirely and nothing beside.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1883To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
—Simone de Beauvoir, 1949Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1920If I see something sagging, dragging, or bagging, I’m going to go have the stuff tucked or plucked.
—Dolly Parton, 2003The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body.
—Anaïs Nin, 1935Very shy people don’t even want to take up the space that their body actually takes up.
—Andy Warhol, 1975Carnal embrace is the practice of throwing one’s arms around a side of beef.
—Tom Stoppard, 1993Every tooth in a man’s head is more valuable than a diamond.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1605I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king.
—Elizabeth I, 1588