In the religion of Love the courtesan is a heretic; but the nun is an atheist. — Richard B. Garnett Copy Share Image
It is something, I thought, when a king can put a courtesan to the blush. — Mary Renault Copy Share Image
Glory is sometimes a low courtesan who on the road entices many who did not think of her. They are astonished to… — Michel, 14th Prince of Ligne Copy Share Image
One of my big inspirations was Céleste Mogador. She was a courtesan who wrote her memoirs in order to pay off her… — Alexander Chee Copy Share Image
Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“She was definitely more covered-up than the courtesans around him. But sometimes there was more allure in not seeing everything.” — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
She had the underwear of a thirteen-year-old, as well, he thought. He glanced back at her. But the shoes of a courtesan. — Anne Stuart Copy Share Image
Balzac loved courtesans. They were independent women, and in the 19th century, that was a breed that was just evolving. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
“Happy?" asked Aquilina, with dreadful look, and a smile full of pity and terror. "Ah, you do not know what it is… — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
The slot machines sit there like young courtesans, promising pleasures undreamed of, your deepest desires fulfilled, all lusts satiated. — Frank Scoblete Copy Share Image
The women who take husbands not out of love but out of greed, to get their bills paid, to get a fine… — Polly Adler Copy Share Image
If they are ignorant, they are despised, if learned, mocked. In love they are reduced to the status of courtesans. As wives… — George Sand Copy Share Image
I'll live as a courtesan, not as a woman. I'll embrace any man that comes my way. It's not hard giving your… — Hwang Jini Copy Share Image
History is the history of human behavior, and human behavior is the raw material of fiction. Most people recognize that novelists do… — Amy Waldman Copy Share Image
“Sweat ran along every part of her body, but she tipped her head back, arms upraised, content to bask in the music.… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
Take up something that you know will never bring you any returns except pleasure-in other words, allow yourself to live the way… — Perry Brass Copy Share Image
Her delight in the smallest things was like that of a child. There were days when she ran in the garden, like… — Alexandre Dumas-fils Copy Share Image
A fat lot of good it would do if I told you that Titian's courtesans make you want to caress them. Some… — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
How is it that one woman is…enough…for three men?” “I don’t know.” “She must be a very talented courtesan.” “Callie.” “Well, that… — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
We have retained the forms and phrases of a republic, but in reality we are living under an oligarchy, not of courtesan,… — Frank Chodorov Copy Share Image
“Finding out that you are not your lover’s only lover hurts, but not as much as discovering that you are the side… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“But for most practical purposes Tarbean had two pieces: Waterside and Hillside. Waterside is where people are poor. That makes them beggars,… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
The only difference between them and my girls is that my girls gave a man his money's worth. — Polly Adler Copy Share Image
The art of war is like the art of the courtesan; indeed they might be called sisters, since both are slaves of… — Pietro Aretino Copy Share Image
By dint of making sacrifices, a man grows interested in the person who exacts them. Great ladies, like courtesans, know this truth… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“Now my uncle knew many of them [actresses] personally, and also ladies of another class, not clearly distinguished from actresses in my… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Public opinion is a courtesan, whom we seek to please without respecting. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Copy Share Image
The word liberty in the mouth of Mr. Webster sounds like the word love in the mouth of a courtesan. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If I had to fall from Cassiel's grace, at least I know it took a courtesan worthy of Kings to do it. — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
If Courtezans and Strumpets were to be prosecuted with as much Rigour as some silly People would have it, what Locks or… — Bernard de Mandeville Copy Share Image
The demi-monde does not represent the crowd of courtesans, but the class of declassed women It is divided from that of honest… — Marlene Dumas Copy Share Image
With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the son of… — Pietro Aretino Copy Share Image
I have seen purer liqors, better segars, finer tobacco, truer guns and pistols, larger dirks and bowie knives, and prettier women courtesans… — Hinton Rowan Helper Copy Share Image
Although the many virtues that courtesans possessed were employed to defy circumstances, the role they played depended on the same circumstances over… — Susan Griffin Copy Share Image
When prostitution is a crime, the message conveyed is that women who are sexual are "bad," and therefore legitimate victims of sexual… — Margo St. James Copy Share Image
Laments of an Icarus The paramours of courtesans Are well and satisfied, content. But as for me my limbs are rent Because… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
I love this word decadence, all shimmering in purple and gold. It suggests the subtle thoughts of ultimate civilization, a high literary… — Paul Verlaine Copy Share Image
You have a curious way of arousing one's imagination, stimulating all one's nerves, and making one's pulses beat faster. You put an… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
It took me some years to clear my head of what Paris wanted me to admire about it, and to notice what… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
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