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Quotes

I’ve been on more laps than a napkin.

—Mae West

Love lasteth as long as the money endureth.

—William Caxton, 1476

To love a woman who scorns you is to lick honey from a thorn.

—Welsh proverb

A maid that laughs is half taken.

—John Ray, 1670

The best moment of love is when the lover leaves in the taxi.

—Michel Foucault, c. 1982

No woman needs intercourse; few women escape it.

—Andrea Dworkin, 1978

Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

—Pablo Neruda, 1924

Sex: in America, an obsession; in other parts of the world, a fact.

—Marlene Dietrich, 1962

Love is giving something you haven’t got to someone who doesn’t exist. 

—Jacques Lacan

I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.

—Zsa Zsa Gabor

Lord! I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.

—Jonathan Swift, 1738

Once a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.

—Tacitus, c. 100

Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.

—Quentin Crisp, 1968