Harlots Quotes
33 quotes by 28 authors
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Every harlot was a virgin once.
— William Blake
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What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can…
— William Blake
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But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see…
— Lord Byron
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The worst sinners, according to Jesus, are not the harlots and publicans, but the religious leaders with their insistence on proper dress and grooming, their…
— Hugh Nibley
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It is our wisest and our safest course to stand at the farthest distance from sin; not to go near the house of the harlot,…
— Thomas Brooks
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Dissembling harlot, thou art false in all!
— William Shakespeare
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Books and harlots have their quarrels in public.
— Walter Benjamin
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The hand that holds the seven stars is as loving as the hand that was laid in blessing upon the little children; the face that…
— Alexander MacLaren
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And the angel spake unto me, saying: Behold the gold, and the silver, and the silks, and the scarlets, and the fine-twined linen, and the…
— Joseph Smith, Jr.
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You know, people say that today. "I am a saved sinner." That is like saying you are a married bachelor. That is like saying you…
— Leonard Ravenhill
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But though such is our character (Oh. why should I speak of things unfit to be uttered?), the things said of us are an example…
— Athenagoras of Athens
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Power without responsibility - the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages.
— Stanley Baldwin
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For if you change from inhumanity to alms giving, you have stretched fourth the hand that was withered. If you withdraw from theaters and go…
— Saint John Chrysostom
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It hath evermore been the notorious badge of prostituted Strumpets and the lewdest Harlots, to ramble abroad to Plays, to Playhouses; whither no honest, chaste…
— William Prynne
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Harlots shall be made pure by their own tears. But you publicans shall be held down by the chains of your own judgement.
— Khalil Gibran
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One thing I must tell you. Idolatry in India does not mean anything horrible. It is not the mother of harlots.
— Swami Vivekananda
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Dear, damned, distracting town, farewell! Thy fools no more I'll tease: This year in peace, ye critics, dwell, Ye harlots, sleep at ease!
— Alexander Pope
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I kept this to remind me of you trying to brush away the Villa Rossa from your teeth in the morning, swearing and eating aspirin…
— Ernest Hemingway
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All the delights of sense, or heart, or intellect, with which you could once have tempted him, even the delights of virtue itself, now seem…
— C.S. Lewis
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Everything is possible for the believer. I have watched impure souls mad for physical love but turning what they know of such love into a…
— John Climacus
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