Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
—Quentin Crisp, 1968
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The best moment of love is when the lover leaves in the taxi.
—Michel Foucault, c. 1982I’ve been on more laps than a napkin.
—Mae WestNo matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
—Abraham LincolnLove 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, 1738One may like the love and despise the lover.
—George Farquhar, 1706Love lasteth as long as the money endureth.
—William Caxton, 1476A maid that laughs is half taken.
—John Ray, 1670Sex: in America, an obsession; in other parts of the world, a fact.
—Marlene Dietrich, 1962What reason weaves, by passion is undone.
—Alexander Pope, 1972No woman needs intercourse; few women escape it.
—Andrea Dworkin, 1978There is no art without Eros.
—Max Frisch, 1983