Famously Said Random quote

Quotes about sex

325 quotes from 189 people

Most readBy personPage 21 of 22

She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that’s best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes:
Thus mellow’d to that tender light
Which heaven to gaudy day denies.
Lord Byron1788–1824She Walks in Beauty (1815)In context
- Beauty
- Women
Wild nights! Wild nights!
Were I with thee,
Wild nights should be
Our luxury!
Emily Dickinson1830–1886Wild Nights – Wild Nights! (1891)In context
- Love
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And⁠—which is more⁠—you’ll be a Man, my son!
Rudyard Kipling1865–1936If— (1910)In context
Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet,
Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God’s great Judgment Seat;
But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth,
When two strong men stand face to face, tho’ they come from the ends of the earth!
Rudyard Kipling1865–1936The Ballad of East and West (1889)In context
- Courage
- Men
A man, at least, is free; he may travel over passions and over countries, overcome obstacles, taste of the most far-away pleasures. But a woman is always hampered.
Gustave Flaubert1821–1880Madame Bovary (1857), Part II, Chapter ThreeIn context
She was one of those pretty and charming girls who are sometimes, as if by a mistake of destiny, born in a family of clerks.
Guy de Maupassant1850–1893The Necklace (1884)In context
- Luck
- Women
Man is the vainest of all creatures that have their being upon earth.
Homer900–800 BCThe Odyssey (8th century BC), Book XVIIIIn context
- Men
- Pride
The lady protests too much, methinks.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Hamlet (c. 1600), Act III, Scene II, spoken by QueenIn context
- Truth & Lies
- Women
“I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman’s feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.”
Jane Austen1775–1817Mansfield Park (1814), Chapter XXXVIIn context
- Love
- Men
I read it a little as a duty, but it tells me nothing that does not either vex or weary me. The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars or pestilences, in every page; the men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all⁠—it is very tiresome
Jane Austen1775–1817Northanger Abbey (1817), Chapter 14In context
- History
- Women
Why didn’t you tell me there was danger in men-folk? Why didn’t you warn me? Ladies know what to fend hands against, because they read novels that tell them of these tricks; but I never had the chance o’ learning in that way, and you did not help me!
Thomas Hardy1840–1928Tess of the d’Urbervilles (1891), Phase the Second: Maiden No More, Chapter XIIIn context
- Men
- Reading
I believe that before all else I am a reasonable human being, just as you are⁠—or, at all events, that I must try and become one.
Henrik Ibsen1828–1906A Doll’s House (1879), Act III, spoken by NoraIn context
- Freedom
- Women
I profess not to know how women’s hearts are wooed and won. To me they have always been matters of riddle and admiration.
Washington Irving1783–1859The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1820)In context
- Love
- Women
Man’s love is of man’s life a thing apart,
’Tis woman’s whole existence
Lord Byron1788–1824Don Juan (1819–1824), Canto the First (2 of 2)In context
Cover up that bosom, which I can’t
Endure to look on. Things like that offend
Our souls, and fill our minds with sinful thoughts.
Molière1622–1673Tartuffe (1664–1669), Act III, Scene II, spoken by TartuffeIn context
- Comedy