Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
—Quentin Crisp, 1968
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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
—Henry Kissinger, 1972Once a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
—Tacitus, c. 100Sex: in America, an obsession; in other parts of the world, a fact.
—Marlene Dietrich, 1962The best moment of love is when the lover leaves in the taxi.
—Michel Foucault, c. 1982Love lasteth as long as the money endureth.
—William Caxton, 1476Lord! I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
—Jonathan Swift, 1738What reason weaves, by passion is undone.
—Alexander Pope, 1972