Love lasteth as long as the money endureth.
—William Caxton, 1476
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No woman needs intercourse; few women escape it.
—Andrea Dworkin, 1978Love is giving something you haven’t got to someone who doesn’t exist.
—Jacques LacanOnce a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
—Tacitus, c. 100What reason weaves, by passion is undone.
—Alexander Pope, 1972There is no art without Eros.
—Max Frisch, 1983A maid that laughs is half taken.
—John Ray, 1670Sex: in America, an obsession; in other parts of the world, a fact.
—Marlene Dietrich, 1962One may like the love and despise the lover.
—George Farquhar, 1706A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
—Stendhal, 1822Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
—Quentin Crisp, 1968I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
—Zsa Zsa GaborTo love a woman who scorns you is to lick honey from a thorn.
—Welsh proverb