I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
—Zsa Zsa GaborSex is the last refuge of the miserable.
—Quentin Crisp, 1968To love a woman who scorns you is to lick honey from a thorn.
—Welsh proverbSex: in America, an obsession; in other parts of the world, a fact.
—Marlene Dietrich, 1962I’ve been on more laps than a napkin.
—Mae WestLove is giving something you haven’t got to someone who doesn’t exist.
—Jacques LacanLord! I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
—Jonathan Swift, 1738Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
—Pablo Neruda, 1924There is no art without Eros.
—Max Frisch, 1983Love lasteth as long as the money endureth.
—William Caxton, 1476Sex is more exciting on the screen and between the pages than between the sheets.
—Andy Warhol, 1975A maid that laughs is half taken.
—John Ray, 1670What reason weaves, by passion is undone.
—Alexander Pope, 1972A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
—Stendhal, 1822Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.
—Saint Augustine, c. 387Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
—Henry Kissinger, 1972No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
—Abraham LincolnNo woman needs intercourse; few women escape it.
—Andrea Dworkin, 1978Once a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
—Tacitus, c. 100One may like the love and despise the lover.
—George Farquhar, 1706The best moment of love is when the lover leaves in the taxi.
—Michel Foucault, c. 1982