best quotations about
Eroticism |
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Quotations
 | Women have twice more hunger, four times more shame, six times more courage and eight times more erotic passion than men. — Chanakya, 370-280 π.X., Indian teacher & philosopher 16 likes |
 | Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away. — Laurence J Peter, 1919-1990, Canadian writer & educator 10 likes |
 | Desire is in men a hunger, in women only an appetite. — Mignon McLaughlin, 1913-1983, American magazine editor 9 likes |
 | Intelligence is the ultimate aphrodisiac. — Timothy Leary, 1920-1996, American psychologist 9 likes |
| Nymphomaniac: a woman as obsessed with sex as an average man. — Mignon McLaughlin, 1913-1983, American magazine editor 8 likes |
 | Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got and fifty percent what people think you've got. — Sophia Loren, 1934-, Italian actress 8 likes |
 | The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love. — Jean de La Bruyère, 1645-1696, French writer 7 likes |
 | Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac. — Henry Kissinger, 1923-2023, American politician 7 likes |
 | You ask what a nice girl will do? She won’t give an inch, but she won’t say no. — Martial, 43-104 AD, Roman poet of epigrams 7 likes |
 | The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting. — Gloria Leonard, 1940-2014, American pornographic actress 6 likes |
 | If you kiss someone on the back of the neck, it spreads. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr., 1940-2021, American self-help writer 6 likes |
 | Christianity has enriched the erotic meal with the appetizer of curiosity and the dessert of remorse. — Karl Kraus, 1874-1936, Austrian writer 5 likes |
 | Thus, in pornographic novels, action has to be limited to the copulation of clichés. — Vladimir Nabokov, 1899-1977, Russian-American writer 5 likes |
 | The best time of a love affair, is when one goes up the stairs. — Georges Clemenceau, 1841-1929, French Prime Minister 5 likes |
| There is no more unfortunate creature under the sun than a fetishist who yearns for a woman's shoe and has to settle for the whole woman. — Karl Kraus, 1874-1936, Austrian writer 5 likes |
 | The only place men want depth in a woman is in her decolletage. — Zsa Zsa Gabor, 1917-2016, Hungarian-American actress 5 likes |
 | Madame Bovary is the sexiest book imaginable. The woman’s virtually a nymphomaniac but you won’t find a vulgar word in the entire thing. — Noel Coward, 1899-1973, British playwright 5 likes |
 | Obscenity is a cleansing process, whereas pornography only adds to the murk. — Henry Miller, 1891-1980, American writer 5 likes |
 | Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion... Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art. — Remy de Gourmont, 1858-1915, French poet 5 likes |
 | Nothing to me is so erotic as a hotel room, and therefore so penetrated with life and death. — Paul Theroux, 1941-, American writer 4 likes |
 | Sex appeal is the keynote of our civilization. — Henri Bergson, 1859-1941, French philosopher, Nobel 1927 4 likes |
 | Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess. — Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784, English writer 4 likes |
| Virginity is the ideal of those who want to deflower. — Karl Kraus, 1874-1936, Austrian writer 4 likes |
 | Your very flesh shall be a great poem. — Walt Whitman, 1819-1892, American poet 4 likes |
 | I have too many fantasies to be a housewife... I guess I am a fantasy. — Marilyn Monroe, 1926-1962, American actress 4 likes |
 | Sexuality is the lyricism of the masses. — Charles Baudelaire, 1821-1867, French poet 3 likes |
 | Is one expected to be a gentleman when one is stiff? — Marquis de Sade, 1740-1814, French writer 3 likes |
 | It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing. — Helen Rowland, 1875-1950, American journalist & humorist 3 likes |
 | Pornography is the eroticism of others. — André Breton, 1896-1966, French writer, founder of Surrealism 3 likes |
 | Put thy shimmy on, Lady Chatterley! — D. H. Lawrence, 1885-1930, British writer 3 likes |
 | Literature - creative literature - unconcerned with sex, is inconceivable. — Gertrude Stein, 1874-1946, American writer 3 likes |
 | The most refined form of sexual attractiveness – as well as the most refined form of sexual pleasure – consists in going against the grain of one’s sex. — Susan Sontag, 1933-2004, American writer, critic, activist 3 likes |
 | All art is erotic. — Pablo Picasso, 1881-1973, Spanish painter 2 likes |
 | We read in Rabelais of how the Devil took flight when the woman showed him her vulva. — Sigmund Freud, 1856-1939, Austrian psychologist, founder of psychoanalysis 2 likes |
| Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta. — Vladimir Nabokov, 1899-1977, Russian-American writer 2 likes |
 | A cliff full of flowers is the body of the woman. |
 | The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet. |
| Of all the sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity. |
 | I had to touch you with my hands, I had to taste you with my tongue; one can’t love and do nothing. |
 | A woman without breasts is like a bed without pillows. |
| There isn't a particle of you that I don't know, remember, and want. |
 | Just erotic. Nothing kinky. It's the difference between using a feather and using a chicken. |
 | Aphrodite’s laughter shakes the sky. |
| “It's terrible, once you've got a man into your blood!” she said. |
| If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a rule. |
 | On the floor we argue, but in bed we explain. And on the pillow, we understand each other! |
 | While no road leads from sensual love to spiritual love, many roads lead from the second to the first. — Lou Andreas-Salomé, 1861-1937, Russian-German writer & psychoanalyst |
 | There is something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more crazy about each other, especially when you are the only extra person in the room. |
 | Prudery is a form of avarice, the worst of all. |
| A woman in her forties has value only to the men who loved her in her youth. |
 | Hay smells different to lovers and horses. |
 | Sensuality is a cultural legacy of the ancient world. Societies where the Greco-Roman legacy is being wiped out, or where it does not exist, only know sentimentalism and sexuality. |
| The increasing disintegration of the person can be measured by comparing the expression “amorous adventure,” which was in style in the 18th century, with the expression “sexual experience,” which is used in the 20th century. |
 | When a hot woman meets a hermit, one of them is going to change. |
Quotes in Verse
 | When I am with you, we stay up all night. When you’re not here, I can’t go to sleep. — Rumi, 1207-1273, Persian mystic & poet 6 likes |
Funny Quotes
 | Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot. — Groucho Marx, 1890-1977, American comedian 8 likes |
 | Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me? — Mae West, 1893-1980, American actress (said it in the film Sextette,1978, but already attributed to West since the 1930s) 7 likes |
| I've been in more laps than a napkin. — Mae West, 1893-1980, American actress 7 likes |
 | There are a number of mechanical devices which increase sexual arousal, particularly in women. Chief among these is the Mercedes-Benz 380SL convertible. — P.J. O’ Rourke, 1947-2022, American columnist & writer 6 likes |
 | I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults. — Gore Vidal, 1925-2012, American writer 4 likes |
Ancient Greek
 | When a woman takes off her robe, takes off her shyness as well. Άμα δε το χιτώνι εκδυομένω, εκδύεται και την αιδώ γυνή. — Herodotus, 480-420 BC, Ancient Greek historian, the “ father of History” 4 likes |
Movie Quotes
 | Well, it's not the men in your life that counts. It's the life in your men. — from the film I’m No Angel (1933) 8 likes |
| Between two evils, I generally like to pick the one I never tried before. — from the film Klondike Annie (1936) 7 likes |
| I only like two kinds of men, domestic and imported. — from the film I’m No Angel (1933) 6 likes |
 | It took more than one man to change my name to Shanghai Lily. — from the film Shanghai Express (1932) 5 likes |
 | I have a head for business and a bod for sin. Is there anything wrong with that? — from the film Working Girl (1988) 5 likes |
 | I once stole a pornographic book that was printed in braille. I used to rub the dirty parts. — from the film Bananas (1971) 4 likes |
 | Oh, Frank. Oh, Frank. My lips are hot. Oh, kiss my hot lips. — from the film M*A*S*H (1970) 4 likes |
