All God’s children are not beautiful. Most of God’s children are, in fact, barely presentable.
—Fran Lebowitz, 1978Quotes
The body says what words cannot.
—Martha Graham, 1985Carnal embrace is the practice of throwing one’s arms around a side of beef.
—Tom Stoppard, 1993O flesh, flesh, how art thou fishified!
—William Shakespeare, c. 1596Your body is the church where nature asks to be reverenced.
—Marquis de Sade, 1797Flesh was the reason why oil painting was invented.
—Willem de Kooning, 1949As the saying goes, an old woman is always uneasy when dry bones are mentioned in a proverb.
—Chinua Achebe, 1958Every tooth in a man’s head is more valuable than a diamond.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1605The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit has made permanent.
—Marcel Proust, 1919And your very flesh shall be a great poem.
—Walt Whitman, 1855Every man must descend into the flesh to meet mankind.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1910Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1920To know intense joy without a strong bodily frame, one must have an enthusiastic soul.
—George Eliot, 1872