Brothels Quotes
43 Brothels quotes by 40 unique authors
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Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.
— William Blake
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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
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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
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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
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I have never been to a brothel. I don't think I could go into one.
— Stephen Rea
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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
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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
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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
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One may not regard the world as a sort of metaphysical brothel for emotions.
— Arthur Koestler
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If you can't get a job as a pianist in a brothel you become a royal reporter.
— Max Hastings
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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
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In Hollywood a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a brothel.
— Ben Hecht
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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
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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
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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
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Keep thy foot out of brothels, thy hand out of plackets, thy pen from lender's books, and defy the foul fiend.
— William Shakespeare
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I always ask the booksellers to look at me and recommend a book; 9 out of 10, they get it right; it’s usually a book…
— Ruby Wax
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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
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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
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Every time a man knocks on a brothel door, he is really knocking for God
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I paint inspired by my father, a well known character of the nightlife; a clandestine gambling capitalist and owner of three brothels in Argentina. I…
— Fabian Perez
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For some strange reason murder has always seemed more respectable than fornication. Few people are shocked when they hear God described as the God of…
— Aldous Huxley
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Modesty and diffidence make a man unfit for public affairs; they also make him unfit for brothels.
— Walter Savage Landor
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Libraries are brothels for the mind. Which means that librarians are the madams, greeting punters, understanding their strange tastes and needs, and pimping their books.
— Guy Browning
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Actors didn't use to be celebrities. A hundred years ago, they put the theaters next to the brothels.
— Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Who Wrote These Brothels Quotes
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