Lord! I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
—Jonathan Swift, 1738
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Once a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
—Tacitus, c. 100The best moment of love is when the lover leaves in the taxi.
—Michel Foucault, c. 1982To love a woman who scorns you is to lick honey from a thorn.
—Welsh proverbI know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
—Zsa Zsa GaborOne may like the love and despise the lover.
—George Farquhar, 1706I’ve been on more laps than a napkin.
—Mae WestSex: in America, an obsession; in other parts of the world, a fact.
—Marlene Dietrich, 1962