A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
—Stendhal, 1822
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To love a woman who scorns you is to lick honey from a thorn.
—Welsh proverbLove is giving something you haven’t got to someone who doesn’t exist.
—Jacques LacanThe best moment of love is when the lover leaves in the taxi.
—Michel Foucault, c. 1982Lord! I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
—Jonathan Swift, 1738Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
—Quentin Crisp, 1968Once a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
—Tacitus, c. 100One may like the love and despise the lover.
—George Farquhar, 1706