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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… — Pietro Aretino
- The art of war is like the art of the courtesan; indeed they might be called sisters, since both are slaves of… — Pietro Aretino
- 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… — Unknown Author
- If they are ignorant, they are despised, if learned, mocked. In love they are reduced to the status of courtesans. As wives… — George Sand
- I love this word decadence, all shimmering in purple and gold. It suggests the subtle thoughts of ultimate civilization, a high literary… — Paul Verlaine
- Although the many virtues that courtesans possessed were employed to defy circumstances, the role they played depended on the same circumstances over… — Susan Griffin
- It is something, I thought, when a king can put a courtesan to the blush. — Mary Renault
- The slot machines sit there like young courtesans, promising pleasures undreamed of, your deepest desires fulfilled, all lusts satiated. — Frank Scoblete
- It took me some years to clear my head of what Paris wanted me to admire about it, and to notice what… — Julian Barnes
- History is the history of human behavior, and human behavior is the raw material of fiction. Most people recognize that novelists do… — Amy Waldman
- 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
- 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