I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king.
—Elizabeth I, 1588Quotes
Very shy people don’t even want to take up the space that their body actually takes up.
—Andy Warhol, 1975The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body.
—Anaïs Nin, 1935My face looks like a wedding cake left out in the rain.
—W.H. Auden, c. 1967Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.
—Kate Moss, 2009Shame on the soul, to falter on the road of life while the body still perseveres.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170I’m at an age when my back goes out more than I do.
—Phyllis Diller, 1981And your very flesh shall be a great poem.
—Walt Whitman, 1855Every tooth in a man’s head is more valuable than a diamond.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1605All God’s children are not beautiful. Most of God’s children are, in fact, barely presentable.
—Fran Lebowitz, 1978Your body is the church where nature asks to be reverenced.
—Marquis de Sade, 1797It hurts to watch the fluency of a body acclimated to its shackling.
—Leslie Jamison, 2014Every man must descend into the flesh to meet mankind.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1910