Quotes about sex
325 quotes from 189 people
Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.
CCCharles Caleb Colton1777–1832Lacon: or Many Things (ed. 1822), vol. 1, p. 150We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition.
Heav’n hath no rage like love to hatred turn’d, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn’d.
William Congreve1670–1729The Mourning Bride (1697), Act III, scene viiiThe worker is the slave of capitalist society, the female worker is the slave of that slave.
James Connolly1868–1916The Re-Conquest of Ireland (1915), ch. VI “Woman”; repr. in P. Berresford Ellis (ed.), James Connolly: Selected Writings (1973), p. 191Women need a reason to have sex while men just need a place.
Billy Crystalborn 1948Interview with Oprah Winfrey
Salvador Dalí1904–1989In The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí—first publication in 1942Wild nights! Wild nights!
Were I with thee,
Wild nights should be
Our luxury!
John Donne1572–1631Elegies, No. 19, To His Mistress Going to Bed, line 33Mark but this flea, and mark in this,
How little that which thou deniest me is;Men’s minds are raised to the level of the women with whom they associate.
Andrea Dworkin1946–2005Pornography, Men Possessing Women (1979)
Albert Einstein1879–1955Obituary for Emmy Noether (1935)
