Lord! I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
—Jonathan Swift, 1738
Archive
Quotes
Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
—Pablo Neruda, 1924One may like the love and despise the lover.
—George Farquhar, 1706To love a woman who scorns you is to lick honey from a thorn.
—Welsh proverbSex: in America, an obsession; in other parts of the world, a fact.
—Marlene Dietrich, 1962No woman needs intercourse; few women escape it.
—Andrea Dworkin, 1978Love is giving something you haven’t got to someone who doesn’t exist.
—Jacques LacanI’ve been on more laps than a napkin.
—Mae West