Sex: in America, an obsession; in other parts of the world, a fact.
—Marlene Dietrich, 1962
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Once a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
—Tacitus, c. 100A maid that laughs is half taken.
—John Ray, 1670To love a woman who scorns you is to lick honey from a thorn.
—Welsh proverbNothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.
—Saint Augustine, c. 387Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
—Quentin Crisp, 1968The best moment of love is when the lover leaves in the taxi.
—Michel Foucault, c. 1982One may like the love and despise the lover.
—George Farquhar, 1706