Brothels Quotes

43 quotes by 40 authors

Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion. — William Blake
The only way to spend New Year's Eve is either quietly with friends or in a brothel. Otherwise when the evening ends and people pair… — Wystan Hugh Auden
That man has missed something who has never left a brothel at sunrise feeling like throwing himself into the river out of pure disgust. — Gustave Flaubert
The best job that was ever offered to me was to become a landlord in a brothel. In my opinion it's the perfect milieu for… — William Faulkner
I have never been to a brothel. I don't think I could go into one. — Stephen Rea
Great restaurants are, of course, nothing but mouth-brothels. There is no point in going to them if one intends to keep one's belt buckled. — Frederic Raphael
On television I feel like a man playing piano in a brothel; every now and again he solaces himself by playing 'Abide with Me' in… — Malcolm Muggeridge
Recall the old story of the rather refined young man who preferred sex dreams to visiting brothels because he met a much nicer type of… — Vivian Mercier
One may not regard the world as a sort of metaphysical brothel for emotions. — Arthur Koestler
If you can't get a job as a pianist in a brothel you become a royal reporter. — Max Hastings
One may enter the literary parlor via just about any door, be it the prison door, the madhouse door, or the brothel door. There is… — Michael Ende
In Hollywood a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a brothel. — Ben Hecht
I think he's Will 's partying a lot in Cabo. I think he's running a brothel. I don't know what he's doing. — Bradley Cooper
I watched Arsenal in the Champions League the other week playing some of the best football I've ever seen and yet they couldn't have scored… — Ian Holloway
The world doesn't want to be punished. It wants to remain in darkness. It doesn't want to be told that what it believes is false.… — Martin Luther
Keep thy foot out of brothels, thy hand out of plackets, thy pen from lender's books, and defy the foul fiend. — William Shakespeare
I always ask the booksellers to look at me and recommend a book; 9 out of 10, they get it right; itâ€™s usually a book… — Ruby Wax
If you call [the synagogue] a brothel, a den of vice, the devil's refuge, Satan's fortress, a place to deprave the soul, an abyss of… — St. Jerome
Words like passion and ecstasy, we learn them but they stay flat on the page. Sometimes we try to turn them over, find out what's… — Jeanette Winterson
Every time a man knocks on a brothel door, he is really knocking for God — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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