sex quotes

The weaker sex, to piety more prone.

-Alexander, Sir William
  Of women.'Doomsday', Fifth Hour.

Don't knock masturbation. It's sex with someone I love.

-Allen,Woody pseudonym of  Allen Stewart Konigsberg
  Annie Hall (with Marshall Brickman).

Once sex rears its ugly 'ead it's time to steer clear.

-Allingham, Margery Louise
  Flowers for the Judge, ch.4.

He thought what a pity it was that all his faces were designed to express rage or loathing. Now that something had happened that really deserved a face, 14 he'd none to celebrate it with. As a kind of token, he made his Sex Life in Ancient Rome face.

-Amis, Sir Kingsley
  Lucky  Jim, ch.25.

   My mother used to say, Delia, if S-E-X ever rears its ugly head, close your eyes before you see the rest of it.

-Ayckbourn, SirAlan
  Bedroom Farce, act 2.

All the privilege I claim for my own sex (it is not a very enviable one, you need not covet it) is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope isgone.

-Austen,Jane
  Persuasion, ch.23.

Money, itturnedout, was exactly likesex, youthought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did.

-Baldwin,James Arthur
  'Black Boy Looks at the White Boy', in Esquire, May.

Love is just a system for getting someone to call you darling after sex.

-Barnes,Julian Patrick
Talking It Over, ch.16.

The soft, unhappy sex.

-Behan, Brendan Francis
  The Wandering Beauty.

Erotic practices have become diversified. Sex used to be a single-crop farming, like cotton or wheat; now people raise all kinds of things.

-Bellow, Saul
  More Die of Heartbreak.

   Every city has a sex and age which have nothing to do with demography.

-Berger,John Peter
  In The Guardian, 27 Mar.

   In the Garden City Cafe¤   with its murals on the wall Before a talk on'Sex and Civics' I meditated on the Fall.

-Betjeman, SirJohn
  A Few Late Chrysanthemums,'Huxley Hall'.

If God had meant us to have group sex, I guess he'd have given us all more organs.

-Bradbury, Malcolm Stanley
  Who DoYou ThinkYou  Are?,'A  Very Hospitable Person'.

In Slaka, sex is just politics with the clothes off.

-Bradbury, Malcolm Stanley
  Rates of Exchange, pt.4, ch.3.

Sex and obscenityare not synonymous.

-Brennan,WilliamJ(oseph),Jr
  Ruling that established a new legal standard for obscenity, 24  Jun.

Sex! What is that but life, after all? We're all of us selling sex, because we're all selling life.

-Chereskin, Alvin
  In the NewYorker,15 Sep.

La seule diffe¤  rence incontestable n'est pas celle des sexes ou des a"  ges ou des forces, mais celle des vifs et des morts. The only incontestable difference isnot that of sexorage or strength, but that of the living and the dead.

-Cixous, He¤  le'  ne
  Dedans.

In the sex war thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female.

-Connolly, Cyril Vernon
  The Unquiet Grave, pt.1.

A romantic interest in our own sex, not necessarily carried as far as physical experiments, was the intellectual fashion.

-Connolly, Cyril Vernon
Of Oxfordduring his student days. Quotedin Peter Quennell The Marble Foot (1977).

   A few professional alienists understood his importance, but to most of the public he appeared as some kind of German sexologist, an exponent of free love who used big words to talk about dirty things. At least a decade would have to pass before Freud would have his revenge and seehisideas beginto destroysex in America forever.

-Doctorow, E(dgar) L(awrence)
  Ragtime, ch.5.

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