Concubines Quote by Ken Liu

“The answer was again in the affirmative, so arrangements were made to bring 180 ladies out of the Palace. Sun Tzu divided them into…

— Sun Tzu

In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin; When man, on many, multipli'd his kind, Ere one to one…

— John Dryden

“...he would tell stories about the Holy City, about Solomon, a just king, a poet-king, a monarch with a thousand concubines. We weren't quite…

— Anonymous

“Princes are fighters or administrators. Neither of those things do much to spread joy in the world. Whores, concubines, and catamites, on the other…

— Jill Knowles

What has ISIS done to the women in the cities they have conquered? Direct enslavement, humiliation and turning women into concubines to be bought…

— Yanar Mohammed

We have mistresses for pleasure, concubines to care for our daily bodys needs and wives to bear us legitimate children and to be faithful…

— Demosthenes

The greatest concubines in history knew that everything revealed with nothing concealed is a bore.

— Geoffrey Beene

“Sanjay, we've never talked about your domestic relationships, but you're a married man, aren't you?" Quinn asked over his shoulder, trying to sound nonchalant…

— Mia Marlowe

I’m very worried about the depiction of women on the screen. It’s gotten worse than ever and it’s related to their being either high-…

— John Cassavetes

The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property - either as a child, a wife,…

— Winston Churchill

On their sofas of spice and feathers, the concubines also slept fretfully. In those days the Earth was still flat, and people dreamed often…

— Tom Robbins

Book lovers are thought by unbookish people to be gentle and unworldly, and perhaps a few of them are so. But there are others…

— Robertson Davies