Courtesans Quotes
24 quotes by 23 authors
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With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the son of a courtesan; it…
— Pietro Aretino
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The art of war is like the art of the courtesan; indeed they might be called sisters, since both are slaves of desperation.
— Pietro Aretino
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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 body and not…
— Hwang Jini
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If they are ignorant, they are despised, if learned, mocked. In love they are reduced to the status of courtesans. As wives they are treated…
— George Sand
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I love this word decadence, all shimmering in purple and gold. It suggests the subtle thoughts of ultimate civilization, a high literary culture, a soul…
— Paul Verlaine
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Although the many virtues that courtesans possessed were employed to defy circumstances, the role they played depended on the same circumstances over which they triumphed-…
— Susan Griffin
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It is something, I thought, when a king can put a courtesan to the blush.
— Mary Renault
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The slot machines sit there like young courtesans, promising pleasures undreamed of, your deepest desires fulfilled, all lusts satiated.
— Frank Scoblete
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It took me some years to clear my head of what Paris wanted me to admire about it, and to notice what I preferred instead.…
— Julian Barnes
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History is the history of human behavior, and human behavior is the raw material of fiction. Most people recognize that novelists do research to get…
— Amy Waldman
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A fat lot of good it would do if I told you that Titian's courtesans make you want to caress them. Some day you'll see…
— Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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The demi-monde does not represent the crowd of courtesans, but the class of declassed women It is divided from that of honest women by public…
— Marlene Dumas
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The word liberty in the mouth of Mr. Webster sounds like the word love in the mouth of a courtesan.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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
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Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man
— Honore de Balzac
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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 aureole on vice,…
— Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
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... for most practical purposes, Tarbean had two parts: Waterside and Hillside. Waterside is where people are poor. That makes them beggars, thieves and whores.…
— Patrick Rothfuss
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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
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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 was what she…
— Sarah MacLean
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Mother went out again tonight, looking like a courtesan.
— John Kennedy Toole
Who Wrote These Courtesans Quotes
23 authors contributed a total of 24 Courtesans Quotes as follows: