Art Quote by Dorothy Parker

The Virgin filled so enormous a space in the life and thought of the time that one stands now helpless before the mass of…

— Henry Adams

“And the children ran home sobbing and half blind Said our lady has a message for mankind Frightened and bewildered, not making any sense…

— Steve Kilbey

The spring without a leaf to toss, bare and bright like a virgin fierce in her chastity, scornful in her purity, was laid out…

— Virginia Woolf

“She was no lithe virgin. Hers was the gentle voluptuousness of a grown woman, with a hint of fullness of breast and hip that…

— J.A. Jance

When I was in high school, we were all laboring under the illusion, or maybe it was a reality, that everyone in our school…

— James Woods

“And others came... Desires and Adorations, Winged Persuasions and veil'd Destinies, Splendours, and Glooms, and glimmering Incarnations Of hopes and fears, and twilight Phantasies;…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

I was a virgin. People find that hard to believe, but when you're raised in a church, that was just the way it is.

— Jessica Hahn

“Was there a missing component in all human beings? The rural masses seeking the metropolis; the urban young fleeing to the woods. Women pretending…

— Michael D. O'Brien

In English, we don't have a word for people who aren't virgins. What the non-virgin lexical gap really made me think was that our…

— John Green

All that we might have been, all that we werefire, tears, wit, taste, martyred ambition stirs like the memory of refused adultery the drained…

— Adrienne Rich

“Oh scattered band, once my playmates, you few Who were amidst the gardens here and there in the city, How hesitantly we located one…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“religious feeling; but in Miss Brooke's case, religion alone would have determined it; and Celia mildly acquiesced in all her sister's sentiments, only infusing…

— George Eliot